00 — Port Jefferson & Saint James, Long Island
Paolo Fontana, MA: executive chef, private country club general manager with COO scope, and founder of Applied Audit, the company behind GMAI. A chef’s refrigerator as a portrait — scroll, and the doors give up what he actually keeps.
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The figure
Paolo in 3D, rigged with six clips. The golf drive is for the club; the salute is the welcome at the door. The rest are for after service. Drag to turn him, or pick a move from the dock.
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Drag to turn the figure. The golf drive plays on its own; the dock swaps clips.
About
Paolo Fontana came up through the kitchens that defined modern New York dining — Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, Craft and Babbo, with a stage at Chez Panisse — before running kitchens of his own and teaching as Executive Chef and instructor at the New York Institute of Technology.
In 2010 he founded the café at Stony Brook University’s Simons Center for Geometry and Physics and ran it for eight years: a scratch kitchen, a catering operation trusted with the university’s most high-profile guests, and a seat at the table for the building’s expansion. Edible Long Island named him a Local Hero in 2015.
Executive-chef roles at Woodside Country Club, Elegant Eating and Blue Point Brewing (AB InBev) followed. From 2022 to 2026 he was at St. George’s Golf & Country Club, promoted from Executive Chef to Clubhouse Manager with COO scope: Board and committee partnership, a full calendar of member events, and an F&B operation that grew every year. Golf Inc. featured his work in 2025 and seated him on the national judging panel for its 2026 Golden Fork Awards.
He now leads Applied Audit Technologies, the company behind GMAI — hospitality software built by an operator, for operators. Whatever the title, the job has always been the same: make people feel looked after.
Experience
Institutional kitchens and clubhouses across Long Island. The roles are here; the operating numbers travel by request, to search committees and recruiters only.
2022 – 2026
Clubhouse Manager with COO scope, 2024–2026 · Executive Chef, 2022–2024
Setauket, New York
2026 – present
Founder & Product Architect
Applied Audit Technologies LLC, New York
2020 – 2022
Executive Chef
Patchogue, New York
2019 – 2020
Executive Chef
Smithtown, New York
2018 – 2019
Executive Chef
Muttontown, New York
2010 – 2018
Founder, Owner & Executive Chef
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Executive Chef and instructor at the New York Institute of Technology, after formative years at Union Square Cafe, Babbo, Gramercy Tavern, Craft and Mirabelle, with a stage at Chez Panisse. Graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in 2001; first kitchen, Devon Yacht Club.
Revenue, food cost, event volume, team size and project budgets for each role are in the full record, shared with search committees and recruiters on request. Have an access code? Enter it and the figures appear here and on the labels inside the refrigerator.
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Ecosystem
Software for the back of the house, a golf brand with Italian character, personal retro games — and the welded sculptures that happen after hours. Each one has its own front door; these are the ways in.
Software · Applied Audit Technologies
Control costs. Keep your team ready.
GMAI connects purchasing, recipes, events and daily operations in one place, so a chef or a general manager can see what changed, what each item costs, what is planned and what comes next — and ask the operation a question and get a number that carries its paperwork. Built from twenty years of running kitchens and clubs.
Apparel · founding collection in development · the figure is his, from Hyper3D
Golf, with Italian character.
A Sicilian-inspired golf and clubhouse wardrobe that starts from the Ace of Bastoni — the suit of clubs in the Sicilian deck — and carries it from the card table to the first tee. Two collections are in the works: Il Campo for the course and Il Tavolo for the table afterwards. La strada per l’Etna.
Games · personal retro titles
You always wanted to be inside the game.
A studio making personal retro-style games in which you — or someone you love — are the hero: your hometown as the first level, your face on the title screen, the music you knew by heart. Start with a game brief; the finished games are in development. For everyone who grew up pressing start.
Kinetic metal fabrication & pixel art
After hours: custom TIG- and stick-welded stainless and mild steel rolling-ball kinetic sculptures, and the 8-bit, NES-style pixel art that feeds Gen X Dream Games.
Contact
Consulting, culinary leadership, a GMAI demo, or a Bastoni conversation. The note goes to the studio; if the form can’t send, your mail app opens with it already written.
Thank you — Paolo will be in touch.
