Background
SOS - Satellite Office Services, LLC was founded in 2006 by partners Wendy Overs Stephenson and Lori Tierney.
When Wendy left the road due to another commitment, Lori was called out to cover for her on a tour. Wendy established a "satellite office" from home to continue to oversee the arrangements she had made for the tour and to make sure the transition went seamlessly.
The collaboration worked so well that Lori and Wendy decided to form a business together to provide logistical and production support to multiple tours at the same time, without having to be on the road or pick just one client / tour to support. While they recognized there was a market for this service and the highly specialized experience they both brought to the table, they could not have anticipated how in-demand their services would be, and how rapidly the business would grow.
In 2009, with the business continuing to expand, Wendy and Lori asked Charles Zimmer to join them as a partner in their business. Charles had worked on several tours supported by SOS, so he recognized first-hand the value of their service. His first order of business at SOS was to streamline operational procedures to allow seamless information sharing and collaboration between all three SOS locations and clients on the road.
Since 2009, our company has continued to expand the scale and variety of the projects we support. In addition to our numerous touring clients, SOS provides logistical support and travel services to a number of the world's preeminent special event production companies and production vendors.
In 2018, the travel division of SOS was acquired by The Appointment Group (TAG), a leading independent travel and events management company with extensive expertise in live entertainment touring. As part of TAG, we continue to provide industry-leading travel management for our clients, while providing immigration and production support services under the SOS brand.
For more information about who we are, please review our overview of services on this site, or choose one of the biographies below:
When Wendy left the road due to another commitment, Lori was called out to cover for her on a tour. Wendy established a "satellite office" from home to continue to oversee the arrangements she had made for the tour and to make sure the transition went seamlessly.
The collaboration worked so well that Lori and Wendy decided to form a business together to provide logistical and production support to multiple tours at the same time, without having to be on the road or pick just one client / tour to support. While they recognized there was a market for this service and the highly specialized experience they both brought to the table, they could not have anticipated how in-demand their services would be, and how rapidly the business would grow.
In 2009, with the business continuing to expand, Wendy and Lori asked Charles Zimmer to join them as a partner in their business. Charles had worked on several tours supported by SOS, so he recognized first-hand the value of their service. His first order of business at SOS was to streamline operational procedures to allow seamless information sharing and collaboration between all three SOS locations and clients on the road.
Since 2009, our company has continued to expand the scale and variety of the projects we support. In addition to our numerous touring clients, SOS provides logistical support and travel services to a number of the world's preeminent special event production companies and production vendors.
In 2018, the travel division of SOS was acquired by The Appointment Group (TAG), a leading independent travel and events management company with extensive expertise in live entertainment touring. As part of TAG, we continue to provide industry-leading travel management for our clients, while providing immigration and production support services under the SOS brand.
For more information about who we are, please review our overview of services on this site, or choose one of the biographies below: