About Us | Leia Inc.

OUR STORY

We’re leading a digital liberation.

Our vision is to change the way we connect, create, communicate and educate – making memories become more present, connections more human, and life, much richer.

We make screens come alive.

We use the power of light to bring screens and content to life with more depth and feeling. Without the need for glasses or headwear, our unique Diffractive Lightfield Backlighting (DLB™) technology adds more emotion and energy to screen-based experiences everywhere.

We’re supporting a community of Lightfield innovators and enthusiasts.

We’re building an expansive Lightfield platform and supporting a vibrant content ecosystem with advanced computer vision algorithms, engaging apps and software tools. It’s a naturally immersive, fully interactive viewing experience. Reality transcends the screen, intuition takes over. Imagery feels so real, you’ll want to reach out and touch it.

Our Story

The building blocks.

Leia was born of years of R&D in nano-structure design and manufacturing at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, CA. Specializing in the manipulation of light at the nano-scale, company founders David Fattal and Zhen Peng worked on many exciting projects including quantum computing systems, nano-lasers, optical interconnects and plasmonic sensors.

A Fateful Discovery.

On a sunny day in the summer of 2010, a company fire drill forced the team outside along with a nano-patterned prototype. Crowds gathered around as the prototype caught the sun, producing a colorful myriad of directions and creating a holographic-like effect. Right then, Project Leia was born.

Developing Lightfield as a medium.

In 2014, Leia Inc. successfully spun out of HP Labs with external help from its third founder Pierre-Emmanuel Evreux, and set out to create its own mass-manufacturing facility for Leia’s core nanotechnology. Since then, Leia has built an incredible team of optical scientists, process engineers, computer vision researchers and other app developers, all passionate about Leia’s core mission to build the future of digital interactions.

Leia Culture

Building the future of digital interactions.

Our vision is bold -- we set out to build a new medium that will fundamentally change the way people experience the digital world, touching all aspects of their lives, the way they communicate, entertain themselves, learn and work.

Creating magic with Lightfields.

Led by an unwavering passion for making magic with Lightfields, Leia Inc. brings best-in-class talent together to innovate, collaborate and breakthrough technology barriers. Our team is composed of inventors, engineers, scientists, creators and developers - all working together to deliver technology that enhances your everyday digital world.

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Management Team

David Fattal

Founder + CEO

David has had a lifelong fascination with Physics. He is a master manipulator of light at the nanoscale - including single photon guns, quantum teleportation and holographic displays. He has a passion for “making magic” and as Leia’s Chief Innovator, a mission to share it with the world.

Zhen Peng

Founder & President + CTO

Zhen leads the efforts in nano-fabrication to implement its core technology in mass production. Always enthusiastic about creating impactful change through technology, Zhen puts his fingerprint on products that can truly enrich lives.

Pierre-Emmanuel Evreux

Founder + President

Pierre brings a profound business acumen honed from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Yet what he finds most exciting is that Leia Inc. reimagines the way we experience and interact with content. And, more importantly, how it brings people closer to the things they love.

Andre Krebbers

COO

Andre’s art is industrializing Leia’s Lightfield technology. He is driven by the hunt for cutting-edge solutions, realizing new products and bringing them to the world to share with millions of people.