ryan:
TECHNOLOGY. DESIGN. STORYTELLING.
Product Lead and ex-founder with 15+ years experience. Creative, user-centric and insights-driven builder. Inspiring and empathetic people leader. Excellent writer, presenter, and cross functional collaborator.
I am the founder of Love Future Institute, a technology and design studio building AI powered products to solve human problems.
Previously, I led creative technology and design teams to invent Google’s future at Google Creative Lab. We (1) built 0-1 special projects with cutting edge tech - AI, NLP, AR, WebVR, etc. (2) delivered compelling and evocative 10x future visions for product teams, and (3) crafted easy-to-understand narratives of complicated research topics for general public audiences.
I snowboard a lot, deejay soul+jazz+electronic music, and believe doing good things, doing good work, and having a good time are not mutually exclusive endeavors.
Work History
Love Future Institute _ 2022-present
Google Creative Lab _ 2013-2022
Wieden+Kennedy NY _ 2010-2012
Young&Rubicam NY _ 2008-2010
Experience
Product Management, Prompt Engineering, Creative Direction & Strategy, Interaction Design, Experience Design, Program Management, Product Marketing, Branding, Storytelling, Film Production, Advertising
GenAI, ML, AR, VR, Web, Mobile
Awards & Recognitions
x1 US Patent
x1 US Defensive Publication
x1 NASA Software of the Year Award
x1 Japan Government Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology’s Innovation League Grand Prize
x1 Cannes Creativity Awards, Grand Prix
x1 Cannes Creativity Awards, Winner
x1 Cannes Creativity Awards, Short List
x1 D&AD Future Impact Design Pencil
x2 Academic Publications
x2 Webby Awards, Winner
x3 Webby Awards, Nominee
x1 Communication Arts Interactive Award for Excellence
x1 Society for Environmental Graphic Design Global Awards, Honoree
x8 Creativity Online Editor’s Pick
x2 FWA Project of the Month
x7 FWA Project of the Day
Featured By
New York Times, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, MIT Tech Review, Scientific American, Fast Company, The Verge, PCMag, Christian Science Monitor, Vice, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, TheNextWeb, Daily Mail, USA Today, Forbes, Columbia Journalism Review, Fox News, CBS, et al.