Stephen D. Fantone is an American businessman and optical engineer.
A graduate of the University of Rochester, he founded the instrumentation firm Optikos.
[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.