Kara Wood, BASc, DMAC
Kara Wood is a seasoned strategist with over 15 years of experience advising public companies and high-growth ventures at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and capital markets.
About Kara Wood
Kara is Co-Founder of Tormont Group and Head of Strategy across Tormont Strategies and The Tormont 50. She is accountable for the firm’s strategic direction and for the standard of counsel delivered to CEOs, boards, and high-growth companies in complex, regulated markets.
Her practice sits at the intersection of strategy, communications, capital markets, and growth. She advises principals on positioning, narrative architecture, investor and stakeholder relations, non-dilutive funding strategy, and institutional authority-building — with particular depth in healthcare and life sciences, health technology and longevity, critical minerals and mining, and legacy and philanthropic planning. Engagements range from fractional C-suite advisory through integrated communications, investor relations, and campaign design.
Kara’s operating background is unusually broad for a communications-led practice. She launched the first digital media program at DBRS (now Morningstar DBRS), held roles at IBM, and has spent more than 25 years in mining and capital markets — from the Vancouver junior market of the late 1990s through a decade leading investor relations and capital-markets communications for a publicly listed PGM recycling and refining company through reverse merger and TSXV listing. That work continues across the critical-minerals supply chain, including lithium, rare earths, precious metals, and recycling platforms. She also leads grant and federal-funding strategy spanning DOE, DOD, and related industrial-policy programs.
She built and runs the firm’s podcast-authority system: a structured guesting practice used to place principals on targeted platforms, convert appearances into pipeline, and treat thought leadership as an institutional capability rather than ad hoc publicity. Parallel mandates have included Head of Communications for REEcycle, investor-relations and strategic communications at DelphX Capital Markets and HOPEneuron, and senior marketing leadership for FORM / SuperFORM. She previously served seven years on the board of Women’s College Hospital Foundation.
Her mandate is exacting: set the strategy, hold the standard, and ensure every engagement — from a board narrative to a federal submission to a market-facing campaign — is coherent, defensible, and built for principals who cannot afford imprecise work.