Dennis Fantone

Optikos

Dennis Fantone is the Vice President and Director of Operations at Optikos. Dennis is responsible for supply chain and manufacturing operations. He received a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a master's degree in optical engineering from the University of Rochester. After graduating from the Institute of Optics at Rochester, Fantone began his optical engineering career with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, working on free space optical communication systems. He joined Optikos in 2016 as a member of the optical engineering group, where he managed the design and production of many projects, including aerial imaging lenses, microscopes, and custom optical metrology instrumentation. Fantone moved into operations management in the spring of 2020, where he facilitated the company’s transition to ISO 13485 certification, managed two building expansions to a current footprint of approximately 50,000 sq ft, and doubled the number of production staff to support the rapid growth of the Optikos design and manufacturing client base.