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ICM Partners has promoted a clutch of business affairs executives. Expanded responsibilities for the group reflect the agency’s growth and the changing nature of employment for artists and others across the entertainment landscape.

Alexandra Kopp has been named VP of business affairs. Amanda Kowal and Olivia Trikilis were upped to senior managers. Nada Bariche, Christine Krikorian and Amy Mellman have advanced from entry-level positions to a business affairs focus. Hope Driskill has joined the agency’s legal affairs team to focus on business and corporate affairs.

“All of these talented women have proven themselves to be exactly the type of top caliber legal and business affairs executives we have long been fortunate to count as colleagues in these departments, and we are pleased to recognize their contributions with these promotions,” said Rick Levy, ICM Partners’ general counsel.

Kopp has been with ICM Partners since 2014, signing on in business affairs.

ICM Partners has promotions of seven executives in its Business and Legal Affairs groups.

Alexandra Kopp was promoted to VP Business Affairs; Amanda Kowal and Olivia Trikilis to senior manager business affairs posts. Nada Bariche, Christine Krikorian and Amy Mellman to business affairs executives; and Hope Driskill joins the legal affairs team as an attorney who also will handle business and corporate affairs duties. All will work from ICM’s Los Angeles headquarters except Mellman, who is based in New York.

Each of the seven will work across multiple disciplines, rather than the only one specific area as agency business affairs executives traditionally have done. This broadening of core areas of competency reflects trends in the business requiring talent representatives to be fluent in multi-hyphenate disciplines, ICM Partners said.

“All of these talented women have proven themselves to be exactly the type of top-caliber legal and business affairs executives we...