Management Team

Nanosys has assembled an accomplished executive leadership team well versed in turning new technology into commercial products for high revenue markets.

Jason Hartlove
President and CEO

Mr. Hartlove joined Nanosys in 2008 with a proven track record of turning emerging technologies into successful commercial products. Prior to joining Nanosys, he was president of the Imaging Solutions Division of MagnaChip Semiconductor in Seoul, South Korea, where he turned an internally focused semiconductor group into a multinational company. Before MagnaChip, Mr. Hartlove was vice president and general manager of the Sensor Solutions Division of Agilent Technologies, a Hewlett-Packard owned company. At Agilent, he led the commercial development and application of optical position sensing technology, which resulted in everyday products like the optical mouse and image sensors for digital cameras. Mr. Hartlove is the author of more than 20 patents, including the winner of the Hewlett Award in 2004 for best patent. He has also worked in a variety of manufacturing, R&D and marketing roles, including MEMS, III -V, bipolar, CMOS and BCD process technologies. Mr. Hartlove holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from UCLA and has completed graduate work at the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

John Page
CFO

Mr. Page brings over 20 years of financial and corporate leadership experience to Nanosys. Most recently, Mr. Page was the CEO and founder of a cloud based computing company. Prior to this, he held numerous financial management roles at leading semiconductor and electronics firms. As VP of Finance for Nvidia, he led a companywide re-engineering of its ERP and financial systems and processes. At Agilent Technologies, Mr. Page was the Division CFO for the Imaging Electronics Division, which he helped lead from inception to $1B in revenue. Additionally, he spent a dozen years with Hewlett-Packard in various financial management roles. This included Division CFO for the Optoelectronics Division where he was the financial lead in the creation and launch of the Lumileds joint venture in solid state lighting between Philips and HP. Before that, he directed the West Coast operations of the HP World Wide Financial Services Organization, where he led a major overhaul of many of key financial systems and processes in preparation for Y2K.

Mr. Page holds an M.B.A. in finance and corporate accounting from the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester, and a B.A. in economics from the University of Rochester.

Dr. Jian Chen
Vice President of Research & Development

Dr. Chen is Vice President of Research and Development at Nanosys, where he is leading the development of a new generation of lighting technology based on quantum dots. Since joining Nanosys in 2002, Dr. Chen has directed research efforts across a variety of applications, including solid-state memory, thin-film solar and macroelectronics. Prior to joining Nanosys, Dr. Chen spent four years at Seagate Technology, developing spin-valve read-heads for magnetic hard-drives.

Dr. Chen has a Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from the Ohio State University, completed post doctorate research at the University of Florida and is the author of 26 patents.

Andrew Filler
Vice President of Intellectual Property

Mr. Filler is vice president of intellectual property. He has expertise managing intellectual property across an array of technology and medical companies. Mr. Filler previously served as chief intellectual property counsel at Caliper Technologies, senior associate attorney at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, and director of intellectual property at Corvascular. Mr. Filler holds a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and a J.D. from University of San Francisco Law School.