The founder of the company has contributed for the many changes that the industry of dog grooming has seen in the last few decades. Jarbas opened his first salon in Brazil in 1976. It was located in a fine boutique area in Salvador, Bahia. That was where Jarbas started to experiment with the way services were provided to pets.

The way pets were treated back then was not to his liking. Since then, for the last 21 years at the current salon, Jarbas has been able to provide services for dogs and cats in a compassionate environment. He has fine tuned some of the most incredible professionals he could find to his mantra of fair, humane and loving treatment of the little ones that bring so much needed love and peace for so many of us.

Outside the salon, Jarbas has Bonsai as a hobby and snow skiing as a predilection sport. Due to the success of the salon, Jarbas has developed a career as a motivational speaker for groomers across the globe. He has conducted and organized educational seminars in Europe and South America, as well as many American cities. He was also the featured groomer of Petsburg-USA, an Animal Planet show still in re-runs. DVDs and Audio-CDs of his seminars are available at www.Barkleigh.com.

Currently Jarbas sees less individual clients in order to better serve all of his many clients. He mostly supervises and maintains the team to keep them focused in delivering the best possible care. They nurture the pets in a state of the art environment with all brand new equipment designed with your pet's comfort and safety in mind. Since Jarbas is a well known judge of dog grooming competitions around the world, he is constantly introducing new tools and techniques for the constant evolution and education of the “Team Ipanema”.