Yes, Dear Entertainment

Yes, Dear Entertainment Formed By Industry Vets
Music industry veterans Mike Gormley and Jolene Pellant have teamed up to form a new management/marketing/music publishing company. The firm is called Yes, Dear Entertainment.
Pellant was Vice President/Marketing for Live Nation. Gormley has been President of L.A. Personal Development since 1987. Prior to that Gormley was partners with Miles Copeland in L.A. Personal Direction. Both were affectionately referred to as L.A.P.D.
Yes, Dear management clients already include buzz artist Quincy Coleman, new Danish/Greenlandic singer/songwriter Simon Lynge, singer/songwriter/actor and storyteller Ronny Cox.
On the marketing side Yes, Dear currently represents, among others Mediabase, the largest radio airplay monitor in North America, and Orsino Publicity who’s music program is heard in eighty-five arthouse movie theatre auditoriums around the country including the Laemmle Theaters, Angelika and City Cinemas.
We are also available for consultations related to the music industry, including expert witness service.
Over the years Gormley has managed The Bangles, Oingo Boingo, Danny Elfman, Concrete Blonde, Angelique Kidjo, Lowen & Navarro and many others. He had been Vice President and Assistant to the Chairman of A&M records prior to forming L.A.P.D.
Coming from the world of video editing and radio, Pellant eventually landed in the position of Director of Marketing and Promotions at Clear Channel/SFX/Avalon Attractions. In 2004, she was promoted to Vice President of National marketing, overseeing national marketing and working on tour marketing for such artists as, Aerosmith, Fiona Apple, Journey, Def Leppard, Damien Rice, Chicago, Stevie Nicks and many others. The company was eventually renamed Live Nation.
According to Pellant, “After a long time working with and for some of the most legendary and wonderful people in the music business, I felt it was time to spread my wings. Working with Mike is a pleasure, he is forward thinking and passionate about the music. We have a dynamic list of clients that will continue to grow.”
Gormley said, “The challenges in this industry today calls for people being smart, diversified, well connected and in love with music. This describes Jolene and, in fact, it describes Yes, Dear. And I can’t wait for the receptionist to take the incoming calls.”