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By: Deborah Speer
ICM Partners
Rob Prinz has stepped down as ICM Partners Head of Worldwide Concerts with Mark Siegel, ICM’s Head of Music, taking over the helm. The news is part of a sweeping new Concerts Division leadership structure announced Feb. 22 by CEO Chris Silbermann. Prinz will remain at ICM as partner and agent and will continue representing a client roster that includes Jerry Seinfeld.
In the same announcement, Robert Gibbs was named Head of Music, becoming the highest-ranking Black executive in the agency business, according to ICM. Matt Bates is now Head of International/Head of Europe. Steve Levine remains in his position as Co-Head of Worldwide Concerts, while Peter Elliot and Scott Mantell continue as managing director of Primary Talent International and co-head of International, respectively.
By: Deborah Speer
ICM PartnersICM Partners continues to make strategic moves to kick off 2021
with the addition of music agents Ron Kaplan, Garry Buck and Alex Buck, who join
the company after runs with Paradigm Talent Agency and Monterey International.
Effective immediately, the announcement was made today by Rob Prinz, ICM Partners’
worldwide head of concerts.
“I have known Ron and Garry as fierce competitors, talented
and professional agents for decades,” Prinz said in a statement to
Pollstar. “We
are thrilled to welcome them and their tremendous clients to the ICM family.”
Among the artists joining them at ICM are Buddy Guy, Corinne
Dan Weiner and
Fred Bohlander when Monterey International was acquired by Paradigm in 2017. Weiner and Bohlander founded Monterey Peninsula Artists in 1975 and launched the Chicago-based Monterey International agency in 1994. The two agencies were considered the premiere independent booking operation through much of the 1990s . In 2004, Monterey Peninsula was acquired by Paradigm, and Weiner and Bohlander, along with the late
Chip Hooper, joined the newly merged agency while Monterey International was spun off into its own company.
Kaplan and Garry Buck s relationship goes back even farther, more than 35 years, starting at Chicago talent agency Prestige in the mid-80 s. Prestige would go on to become American Famous Talent and the two men would build out a contemporary talent roster that includes their roster into a who s who of contemporary talent including Corinne Bailey Rae, Macy Gray, Mavis Staples (Europe only), Richard Marx, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Tow