Stephen D. Fantone is an American businessman and optical engineer. A graduate of the University of Rochester, he founded the instrumentation firm Optikos.[1] He is a fellow of SPIE and of Optica and served as the latter organization's president in 2020.[2] [3] Optica renamed its award for distinguished service in his honor in 2013.[4]
In the late 1990s, Fantone consulted on the lensing system for Fisher-Price's revised View-Master toy.[5]
From 2012 through 2020, Fantone chaired the board of directors of the Pioneer Institute, a free-market think tank in Massachusetts.[6] Fantone is also president of the Partnership for Massachusetts' Future, an advocacy group of business organizations and entrepreneurs founded in response to Raise Up Massachusetts, a pro-labor advocacy coalition.[7]