Signal and Cipher

Signal and Cipher is the Future Decoded. We are an innovation and change management firm dedicated to helping the most impactful companies in the world navigate, operationalize, and monetize the impact of AI to drive the future of work.

From Hollywood studios to tech darlings and CPG, our clients are looking for ways to build the future today.

Keynote Speaker

I speak frequently on the future of work and the impact of rapid change on enterprises, employees, consumers, and the global economy.

Keynote Platforms: 
Billion Dollar Teams: The Future of an AI-Powered Workforce
Future Forward: Navigating Exponential Change
Creative Machines: AI and the Future of Creativity

Recent keynotes include Deloitte, Microsoft, Synchrony, Puig, SXSW, Adobe, Febraban, Icatu, Totvs, and Itau.

I have also given guest lectures on leadership and AI at several universities, including the University of Chicago, Northwestern, Loyola, DePaul, UIC, and IIT.

International Keynote Speaker

DeFiance Media

I write and produce the Future Report segment as a part of Defiance Daily on the Defiance Media Network, using Hour One's powerful synthetic media platform. Each news segment is delivered by an AI version of me - a Deepfake.
You can catch the segment at https://defiance.media or streaming on over 100MM devices and smart TVs worldwide.

AI Correspondent - Synthetic Host of "Future Report"

Coastal Spritz

Interim Fractional CMO

Update Beverage

Caffeine is obsolete. It’s time for an Update. Crush procrastination with a smart energy drink that's more advanced than caffeine. Now available at www.drinkupdate.com

* Rebuilt the brand from the ground up after two prior agencies failed to design a distinctive brand for this new beverage category
* Built a nimble team of freelancers to establish a visual identity, brand guidelines and design system, including an extensive library of 3D assets, and feature animations
* Defined core value propositions and key demographics for launch
* Lead launch strategy and execution 
* Worked with bleeding-edge tech platforms like Unreal Engine 5 and LightTwist to develop immersive brand experiences

Head Of Brand + Futurist in Residence

Cocktails For Hope

•  Successfully lobbied for the legalized sale of Cocktails-to-go in Illinois - providing bars and 
    restaurants a revenue lifeline during Covid
•  Built a team of 50+ volunteers, including some of the world's biggest names in hospitality
•  Co-wrote legislation that received overwhelming bi-partisan support 

Cocktails For Hope is an initiative that advocates for the temporary sale of pre-mixed cocktails in containers sealed by on-premise license holding establishments in the State of Illinois. Cocktails For Hope is committed to creating necessary cash flow to bars and restaurants throughout the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic to allow them to remain in business. The initiative also seeks to create an open line of communication with lawmakers for continued conversations as the hospitality landscape evolves over time.               Visit us at: www.cocktailsforhope.org

Co-Founder

SWAPP PROTOCOL (NFT Marketplace, Decentralized Exchange, Data Monetization)

Advising Swapp on 
- Implementation of structure and process needed to scale effectively
- Marketing and communications strategy

NFT Marketing and Operations Advisor

XR Founders

We are a collective of over 15,000+ interdisciplinary voices sharing ideas to shape the future of XR. Together we explore new capabilities, diversity, ethical design, accessibility, sustainability, and social impact within the industry. 

Join us on Clubhouse every Thursday and Sunday at  5PM ET.

Cohost

Hawkeye

Epsilon agency is now part of Hawkeye!

We’re a one-of-a-kind human experience agency.

We orchestrate experiences for people across their customer journey— leveraging human insight, the world’s best data, empathic creativity and the most powerful technology available. We do all this to deliver business results for our clients and to create more meaningful connections between humans and brands.

We call these Connections Designed to Matter™.

VP, Group Director: Digital Strategy + Innovation

Epsilon

Established the Creative Technology group to explore, prototype, and deploy new technologies in service of solving client business challenges.

Digital Strategy Practice Lead
Executive Development Program Graduate

Vice President, Digital Strategy

Decoding the future of work with the technologies of tomorrow | Futurist | Speaker

I help executives (including C-Suite and NEDs), and marketing teams understand the impact of AI on their organizations and augment the power of their teams with AI and reimagined workflows. 

For over a decade I've helped companies do mind-bending things with new and emerging technologies by showing them how to create, monetize and scale with bleeding-edge tech when few best practices and instruction manuals exist. At Signal and Cipher, we're focused on decoding the future of work for our clients.

My mission as a futurist and speaker is to inspire people to take ownership of their role in shaping the future, participate in building the world they want to see, be the wrong person asking the right questions, and approach the future with wonder, curiosity, and hope, not fear and confusion. The future is ours to shape, but you don't win by being as a spectator. 


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Considered one of the top voices in AI and the future of work, Ian is a trusted advisor to the world's most innovative companies. His firm Signal and Cipher transforms companies into AI-ready organizations with training, workforce reengineering, design, and development, resulting in meaningful routes to innovation that impact the bottom line, inspire cultural change, and create new products and ways of working.

Previously responsible for P&Ls and innovation departments at the largest agencies in the world, Ian is known for making bleeding-edge technology understandable and monetizable. Brands he has advised over the last decade include Samsung, Intel, Coca-Cola, Google, Microsoft, Nike, and dozens more.

Ian has pioneered a digitally immersive presentation style that brings artificial intelligence and extended reality to life so audiences can understand the future of technology in actionable ways. Ian is also the co-owner of a production studio designing virtual worlds and the first person ever to host a news segment as a synthetic human, streaming to over 100 million devices around the world.

A classically trained musician, Ian understands the magnitude of AI's coming impact on human creativity. As a strategist and speaker, he strives to educate stakeholders on the real-world implications of emerging technologies so they can make informed decisions that positively shape our world and advance humanity. In a rapidly evolving world that some consider dystopian, Ian remains a steadfast optimist and offers what everyone needs now: hope.

Specialties:  AI • Machine Vision • Emerging Technology • Digital Strategy • Process Engineering • Prototyping • Systems Thinking • Team Leadership

Ian Beacraft

GM Financial

Support in the overall business strategy for GMF Brazil, review, define and implement strategy in line with corporate plans. Inclusive Leader of a team of more than 100 colleagues. 
Responsible for GMF CX, Consórcio business, credit recovery and local project management. 
Worked in consumer and commercial underwriting. 
Provides advice, guidance and mentoring to the team.  
Responsible for overall development of underwriting talent in Retail Operations.
Responsible for GMF Debt Recovery:
Oversee all aspects of retail collection and recovery efforts and initiate programs and procedures to adjust to the changing economic environments and new product initiatives.
Exhibit strong leadership presence by inclusively engaging staff in modeling and setting clear expectations. Maintain a high level of cooperation and rapport with all associates in order to ensure accurate and efficient operations and service.
Monitor progress of department staff and mentor staff to ensure achievement of personal performance goals.
Monitor tracking systems for all bankruptcies, suits, foreclosures and other post charge off activity.
Responsible for operational MIS and change management process in GMF core systems integrating IT and the business.

Sr Operations Director

Responsible for the Strategic Roadmap and Target Operating Model Design for the Retail Program for GMF International Operations.
Manage Retail Transformational business models and the sustainability of current ones for our International Operations, including Multi Channel sales platforms, Digital Signature, Electronic Verification, and self-service technologies with focus on operational excellence through a customer centric mindset.
Leadership in complex multiple interfaces projects such as CRM systems, Collections systems, Quotation and credit application systems. Integration projects with Dealer Management Systems and Web based corporate solutions.

Sr Director Retail Development

- Responsible for consumer (retail) and commercial (wholesale) credit administration. 
- Collections strategies and structure for Banco GMAC consumer portfolio reducing delinquent accounts and maximizing recoveries over salvage portfolio. Satisfactory implementation of ERP system. 
- Customer Service administration and structure looking for efficiency improvements through usage of technology and implementation of new tools. Managed the implementation of a new IVR, dialer and phone structure. Currently working to implement a new CRM system.
- Consorcio improving efficiency, productivity and automatizing processes as well as outsourcing non-core activites. Significantly improved sales platform with the introduction of a new web based front end system.
- Ombudsman ensuring compliance with local central bank regulations and serving our customers within satisfactory service levels.
- Business integration team, providing support to the local business by interface with IT.

Operations Director

Banco GMAC -  Brazil

- Responsible to structure and define credit consumer policies, integrating underwriting processes with scorecards and verification processes.
- Responsible to administrate relationship and commercial credit lines with GM dealer network. 
- Maintained fluent communication and visits with our biggest commercial customers to foster integration and improve credit quality.
- Decided several workout strategies for commercial customers (lease rental companies and GM dealers) with no loss for GMAC.

Credit Director

Banco GMAC - Brazil

Responsible to structure GM dealers credit monitoring process.

Credit Manager

Ally

Established underwriting scorecards partnering with risk analytics and provided commercial credit recommendations for the Latin American Businesses.

Commercial Credit Manager - Mexico

GMAC - Mexico

Commercial Lending Supervisor

GMAC - Argentina

Commercial Lending Analyst

Accounting Clerk

As a Senior Operations Director at GM Financial, I lead a team of over 100 colleagues in Brazil, supporting the overall business strategy and implementing corporate plans. I have over 14 years of experience in the financial services industry, with a focus on consumer and commercial underwriting, credit recovery, and local project management.

I am passionate about customer experience and have completed a professional certification from Medallia Institute. I also hold an MBA from Tecnológico de Monterrey and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Universidad de Belgrano. My goal is to leverage my skills and experience to drive operational excellence and customer satisfaction in the retail program for GMF International Operations.

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