Editor Bob Spector is going entrepreneurial again. For the first go-around he and editor Sheila Sweeney formed Bob ‘n Sheila’s Edit World, which enjoyed a 10-year run in San Francisco before closing in 2003. Now, after a stint in Los Angeles and stays with a couple of shops in the Bay Area, Spector is set to launch his own shop, Barbary Post. The new San Francisco venture is scheduled to open its doors in mid-February.
Among the key staffers at Barbary Post are executive producer Kristen Jenkins and editor Doug Brown. The latter worked with Spector at Bob ‘n Sheila’s. Jenkins’ credentials include having produced work for The Whitehouse and Red Car, both in Chicago.
For the past year, Spector cut at Teak, San Francisco, where his credits included spots for Microsoft via McCann Erickson, San Francisco, 7-Up for Young & Rubicam, San Francisco, Comcast out of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, Southwest Airlines for GSD&M, Austin, Tx., and T-Mobile via Publicis, Seattle.
Prior to Teak, Spector was briefly at Red Car, San Francisco. He came there from Los Angeles-based Jigsaw, which is the shop he joined after Bob ‘n Sheila’s.
Spector is best known for his dialogue and comedy work, including such Super Bowl fare as the high-profile Budweiser “Lizards” campaign through Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. He also cut that agency’s longstanding talking chickens campaign for Foster Farms. Spector began his career as an assistant at Cutters, Chicago, where he spent two years before moving to Northern California in ’89. Before Bob ‘n Sheila’s, Spector cut at such now defunct San Francisco houses as Fleet Street and Good Pictures.
Barbary Post’s resources include three Avid suites, which will double as Final Cut Pro rooms, and an AfterEffects room. Jen Allen is senior assistant/graphics artist at the shop.
