Gopher Crow Entertainment partner Jack Baric is an Emmy Award winning producer and marketer. Baric's diverse professional passions include, telling stories, marketing, economic development, and charitable good works. He spent over 15 years in magazine publishing, during which time he was the partner in a college media and marketing company, created a magazine division for the Long Beach Press-Telegram, and launched a magazine for his hometown, San Pedro Magazine.

In 2005, Baric started a production company, which has produced several documentary films and numerous corporate videos, commercials and PSAs. His films have played on PBS, Fox Sports, and on screens all across North America and in Europe, and have garnered him numerous awards, including an Emmy. Not satisfied with just producing the content, Baric has utilized his productions to serve as the foundation for marketing campaigns, which he created. These campaigns were used to spur economic development, create social awareness, or raise money for charity. For example, his film A City Divided, about the history of the USC vs. UCLA football rivalry, was at the center of a campaign he created called Rivals United for a Kure, which raised $600,000 for the cancer research centers at UCLA and USC.

Baric has served as the Chairman of Economic Development for the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce and later as the Chairman of its Marketing Committee. He was on the advisory board that formed Port Tech LA, a business incubator dedicated to providing green technology business solutions for the Port of Los Angeles and the maritime industry. Baric is an alumni of the University of Southern California, where he majored in economics, and minored in marketing.