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CAA Leaders, ICM Partners Chief on What s Next for the Agencies After Blockbuster Deal

CAA Leaders, ICM Partners Chief on What s Next for the Agencies After Blockbuster Deal
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Sun Valley Scene: Jeff Bezos Shows Up, the Murdochs Don t and Shopify, Stripe Chiefs Impress

Sun Valley Scene: Jeff Bezos Shows Up, the Murdochs Don t and Shopify, Stripe Chiefs Impress Cynthia Littleton, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail SUN VALLEY, Idaho A funny thing happened on the way to Sun Valley this year. Despite predictions that turnout for the annual Allen & Co. conference would be lighter after last year’s COVID-forced cancellation, attendance at the three morning sessions on the first full day of the gathering was strong and included the mega-mogul of the moment, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. There was chatter on Tuesday as the captains of industry alighted on central Idaho mountain resort about whether Amazon founder Bezos would make it this year, given that he’s about to blast off on July 20 for a brief orbit in the spacecraft crafted by his private space exploration firm, Blue Origin. Further, this week marks the first time in 27 years that Bezos hasn’t been CEO of the e-commerce giant that he founded in his Seattle garage in 1994. The longtime lieut

Top Hollywood talent agency accused of tolerating sexual harassment, misconduct

LOS ANGELES – In late 2017, ICM Partners CEO Chris Silbermann announced an audacious pledge: achieve gender parity in leadership positions and on the board by 2020. It was part of a larger industry-wide effort called 50/50 by 2020, championed by prominent ICM client Shonda Rhimes and others in the wake of Hollywood s reckoning over sexual harassment. Companies work best when . there is a balance of men and women in positions of leadership and positions all across the company, Silbermann said during a 2018 policy summit. We can t be a company of a bunch of guys who look like me. Last year, ICM, which represents such stars as Samuel L. Jackson, Spike Lee, Regina King, Michael Keaton and Wanda Sykes — declared victory, telling Variety that at least half the agents promoted to partner status since 2017 were female. In March, the agency said that 15 of its 23 departments are run or co-run by women.

Sexual misconduct allegations pile up at Hollywood talent agency: report

© Getty Images In a report published by the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday, multiple former and current employees at major Hollywood talent agency ICM Partners allege the company allowed a culture of harassment and hostility towards women and people of color to grow, despite claiming to have achieved gender parity last year. More than 30 former and current employees of ICM Partners spoke to the Times, detailing around a dozen instances in which women reported mistreatment from male agents and managers. Following the watershed rise of the Me Too movement, ICM which represents well-known names like Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton and Wanda Sykes pledged to achieve gender parity across its leadership positions by the year 2020 in an effort it dubbed 50/50 by 2020. The Times notes that the company claimed to have achieved this last year, with at least half of the agents promoted to partner positions being female.

ICM Hit With Toxic Workplace Claims

ICM Hit With Toxic Workplace Claims
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