BA-SID Professional Person Spotlight

Jason Hartlove – VP of Display and Optics, Meta

Jason Hartlove is Vice President of Display and Optics at Meta. In this role, he is responsible for delivering complete display systems for Meta’s next generations of Augmented Reality products, seamlessly blending the real and virtual worlds. He leads a cross-functional global organization developing components and systems, including teams with expertise in perceptual image science, image processing, optical and traditional semiconductors, light engines, optics, waveguides, sensors, prescription lenses and novel process technologies including additive manufacturing.

A technology executive with over 35 years of experience developing and bringing to market first of a kind optical systems and technologies, Jason was most recently President and CEO of Nanosys where he pioneered the development of Quantum Dot technology for displays, with over 60 million units shipped across over 800 different consumer and IT SKUs from nearly every major brand in the world, leading to its acquisition by Shoei Chemical. Previously he led product development teams at Hewlett Packard, was Vice President and General Manager of Agilent’s CMOS Image Sensor Solutions Business Unit and was a founding Executive Vice President at MagnaChip Semiconductor focusing on Display Driver ICs and CMOS Image Sensors, setting the company on a successful path to an IPO.

Jason received the David Sarnoff Prize from SID in 2023 and serves as a member of the SID Awards Committee. He received the Bill Hewlett Award in 2005 while at Agilent Technologies and is a prolific inventor named on more than 100 patents including as co-inventor of one of the most ubiquitous technology products of the last 30 years, the multibillion-selling optical mouse, as well as author of numerous publications. He holds a BSEE from University of California, Los Angeles.