Meet The Team

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Serial entrepreneur having founded technology startups, a consulting firm, an independent record label and a cocktail lounge hosting live music & arts!

Emphasis: developing ideas from concept to reality, creating solutions to challenging technology problems, building cross-functional teams from the ground up.

 

Aside from everything else, Spence is an expert bass fisherman...

Thirty years of playing in bands in San Francisco has led Chris to his current role as co-owner and producer at Wally’s Hydeout, aka Hyde Street Studio C.

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Before coming to Hyde Street, Chris worked at first generation in audio post production on several tv shows and commercials.  he also did the sound design  and score for ‘Love Hurts’ an award winning short film directed by Albert Lopez.   

 

Chris is also the head engineer at the black cat lounge, mixing shows for Grammy winning artists like Keyon Harrold, Mobetta Brown, Talib Kweli, and Renee Neuville.    Whether he’s behind the drums or the mixing board, he is serving the music.

With advanced degrees in fine art, philosophy, child/human development, family studies and early childhood education, David has worked in & out, on, under and around still and moving picture productions for 30 years, bringing his unique experience, philosophies and artistic esthetic to each project. 

 

While establishing one of the preeminent all outdoor forest schools in San Francisco, David has simultaneously nurtured and developed his creative roots through a lifelong calling of  music, recording, production, the study of the human condition and cosmology. 

 

He produces people, supporting and coaxing careers for creators, caregivers and professionals of every ilk.

Trained in San Francisco, Albert worked in advertising for Gooby, Silverstein & Partners, various Bay Area independent feature films and TV shows such as “Parenthood” before transitioning to feature films and post-production for Disney and 1492 Productions. Albert directed the award winning comedy-short, “Love Hurts.”

 

Albert’s visual strengths are fortified by his editorial visualization work on several projects currently in post-production, “Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning” Parts 1&2, “Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom,” and the previously released films “John Wick: Ch. 4,” “Ad Astra” and “Saving Bansky.”

Jason spent decades working in animation, independent films, commercials, and music

videos, before writing, directing, and producing the “Mother Love” section of Sinphony: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology which was released by Dark Sky Films the horror arm of the MPI Media Group in October of 2022 in a limited theatrical, tiered VOD, and DVD release. When covid hit in 2020, Jason served for three years as the editorial manager at Halon Entertainment, a NEP Virtual Studios company, on films such as "John Wick 4," Aquaman and The Lost Kingdom," "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning part 2," and "Transformers: Rise of The Beasts." He wrote and directed the recently completed TVU short “Grizzly Peak" starring Gigi Saul Guerrero and Danny Glover in 2025.

Bill is a business strategist and creative operations leader at TVU, where he manages day-to-day operations, contracts, and financial systems. With a background spanning hospitality, entertainment, and public service, he brings a rare blend of creative production insight and disciplined business management to the team.

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Bill’s career began in hospitality, where he led hotel, restaurant, and nightclub operations before expanding into large-scale event production. He has built and managed businesses with budgets from $10 million to over $100 million and has produced major indoor and outdoor events for thousands—curating entertainment, food, and beverage experiences while booking talent and managing logistics end-to-end.

 

In public service, Bill spent nearly a decade in appointed and elected roles in the Bay Area. He chaired the South County Fire Board, led efforts in sustainability and infrastructure reform, and earned recognition for helping shape energy and water strategy. This deep experience in governance and community engagement now supports his work at TVU, where he helps build a transparent, inclusive, and artist-first model for the creative industries.