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Carmen Fontana

Juniors, Masters and Professionals at USA Track & Field

Greater Cleveland

Overview 

Carmen Fontana is an experienced emerging tech leader currently serving as the Vice President of Operations at Augment Therapy, with previous roles at IEEE and Centric Consulting. Carmen has a Master of Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, and is an active investor in seed and pre-seed stage companies in sectors such as space, robotics, IoT, and AI in the Midwest region.

Work Experience 

  • Vice President Operations

    2023 - Current

  • Director Of Operations

    2021 - 2023

    Augment Therapy is an award-winning digital health company that engages people of all ages and ability levels in immersive, gamified exercise from hospital to home. Leveraging MOCAST™, the company’s proprietary technology, Augment Therapy offers a unique combination of full-body skeletal tracking and augmented reality-based interactive exercises accessible simply through a tablet or phone. While also improving the exercise experience, healthcare providers can better engage their patients and generate evidence-based gamified exercise programs while easily monitoring progress at any time. Valuable patient data and analytics are built into Augment Therapy’s HIPAA compliant and SOC 2® Type 1 approved software. The platform is designed for inpatient, outpatient, and at home use by healthcare caregivers, their patients, and for continued wellness opportunities. Augment Therapy was co-founded by CEO, Lindsay Watson, a physical therapist with over 20 years of experience and CTO, Steve Blake, a 30-year medical and tech-education software expert. Incorporated in 2018, Augment Therapy is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. Augment Therapy was selected as a 2022 Unity for Humanity award recipient. Unity is the world’s leading platform for creating and operating real-time 3D (RT3D) content.

Augment Therapy is an interactive software that uses the medium of AR to provide virtual pediatric rehab and remote patient monitoring.

Raised $4,379,000.00 from CareSource.

  • Media Representative, International Speaker and Thought Leadership Contributor

    2019

    Represent IEEE in the media globally, including conference speaking and industry publications. Focus area: Emerging Tech trends including Connected Devices, AI, and Metaverse. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

IEEE is a professional association of engineers focused on advancing technological innovation and excellence.

Raised $1,200,000.00.

  • Track and Field Official - High School and Middle School

    2023

  • Track and Field Official - Juniors, Masters and Professionals

    2023

The United States national governing body/member of the Olympic movement for track & field, cross country & road running and race walking.

  • Limited Partner

    2021

    Countdown invests in founders rebuilding the American industrial base at the earliest stages.

Countdown Capital is an investor in early-stage industrial companies.

  • Member | Investor

    2021

    Member Investor that helps evaluate B2B SaaS investment opportunities, perform due diligence, and support portfolio companies.

  • Investing Member

    2020

    Member of Portfolia Funds, investment funds designed for women who want to back entrepreneurial companies for returns and impact.

Portfolia creates investment funds designed for women, backing innovative companies, for returns and impact

  • Practice Lead, Cloud & Emerging Tech

    2012 - 2021

    Direct Delivery, Operations, and Business Development for Modern Software Delivery practice, focusing on Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and Innovation.

Centric Consulting provides full-service management consulting services.

Raised $400,000.00 from Amazon Web Services.

  • Board Member, Design Thinking Advisory Council

    2018 - 2020

  • Practice Lead, Digital Marketing

    2008 - 2012

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