Barry M. Spector

Barry Spector started his career at Acme Foods, a family-owned meat snack manufacturing company in Baltimore, Maryland. He grew the company from a few million in sales to over $15 million before selling it to GoodMark Foods, maker of “Slim Jims,” in 1991. Spector was the CEO and sole selling shareholder. After selling, he put together and managed a $200 million co-pack meat snack agreement with Frito-Lay.

Subsequently, Spector held CEO positions within several industries, including snack foods, information technology, and a venture capital group. Of note, he served as CEO of RouteSmart, a software developer of routing systems in Columbia, Maryland.. He also served as a business strategy and marketing consultant to Frito-Lay, Inc., Havatampa Corporation, GoodMark Foods, Inc., and Southland Corporation.

In 1997, he became a managing director at Bengur Bryan & Company, where he put together numerous transactions in the food and snack industry. In 1999 he was recruited to Ferris Baker Watts, Inc. in Baltimore to start a consumer investment banking advisory group. He continues to carry out merger and acquisition transactions for Ferris Baker Watts today.

Spector attended both Ohio University and Johns Hopkins University, and completed the Harvard Business School’s Owner-President Management Program.

He has served on the boards of Rymer Foods (NASDAQ:RYMR), La Parisienne Bakery, and the University of Maryland’s William Smith Graduate School of Business and Management-Dingman Center. Spector was also an officer and board member of the Baltimore-Washington YPO chapter. Currently he serves on the Boards of Saval Foods, EMD Sales Company, and Codign, Inc. In January 2006, Barry moved from Baltimore, Maryland to Santa Barbara and joined the board of the Santa Barbara County Food Bank. He is also the Forum Coordinator of WPO (World President’s Org) in Santa Barbara.