Ivan Beck is Vice Director of the Async Research Institute
He was born in Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia in 1931 to Antonin and Doris Beck.
It is speculated that somewhere in the 1980s, he was hired by Lawrence (Director of the Async Research Institure) when Async was founded after he demonstrated his extraordinary skills and abilities in Prototype1 and after the 1972 Solar Flare, his machine (originally intended as a sort of nuclear reactor) overflowed2 with energy and let him SEE into the backrooms and become quantumly entangled with it, also giving him post-traumatic amnesia and this left him blind in his left eye
Then, he dedicated his entire life to exploring and charting the backrooms, perfecting3 the threshold on October 17th, 1989
This was the same day as a major solar flare and the Loma Prieta earthquake
Via opening this threshold, he essentially connected our reality and the backrooms via null zones, which allow the backrooms to pull information in, to copy stuff from our real world
but the backrooms starts consuming our world, merging with it, this is demonstrated in Found Footage 34, where Ravi, the person recording in Found Footage 3, enters the backrooms through a physical hole within his apartment and before that, he sees a hole in his window, as if something had jumped out
Ivan Beck seems to be obsessed with the backrooms much more than Clark is and is willing to sacrifice our entire reality to explore it