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Elena Gomez

Company: Toast
Title: President and Chief Financial Officer
Industry: Technology

Standout achievement in 2025: Expanded Toast to more than 160,000 restaurant and retail locations while delivering $2 billion in revenue.

Gomez leads global finance, investor relations, corporate development, and business operations for the restaurant management software company.

After joining Toast in May 2021, she led the company through a successful IPO later that year. In the years since, Gomez has focused on positioning the company for durable growth across a large market opportunity in the restaurant and retail industry.

Toast grew locations where its technology is in use 22% year-over-year in Q4 2025 to approximately 164,000.

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