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10 Toast executives
These ten Toast executives, all in current roles, include the company's president and co-founder, its chief operating, marketing, information and revenue officers, and senior vice presidents over payments, fintech, consumer, marketing and sales. A reader can learn from them how Toast's leadership team builds and sells restaurant software, payments and financial products.
Professionals to explore
01—10Craig Daniel
LinkedInExperience: SVP & GM Consumer · Toast
SVP & GM Consumer at Toast since July 2026 (current); his profile says he leads the Consumer business, including Toast Local, Toast Tables and Toast Pay, and is a member of the Senior Leadership Team. At Toast he was also SVP & GM New Ventures and Guest (2023–2026) and VP & GM New Ventures (2021–2023), and he was VP Product at Drift, a Salesloft company (2017–2021).
Joe Starzec
LinkedInExperience: Senior Vice President of Sales · Toast
Senior Vice President of Sales at Toast since May 2023 (current), a President/Vice President-level role in Sales. His other Toast roles include Vice President of Sales (2021–2023), Vice President Field Sales (2019–2021) and RVP Sales (2017–2019), and he was Regional Sales Director - GolfNow at GolfNow (2014–2017).
Jonathan Vassil
LinkedInExperience: Chief Revenue Officer · Toast
Chief Revenue Officer at Toast since May 2022 (current); his profile headline reads CRO at Toast, Inc. At Toast he was also SVP GM, Core BU (2020–2022) and SVP, Sales (2017–2020), and he has been a Lecturer at University of Virginia Darden School of Business since 2022 and a Fellow & Growth Advisor at Tidemark since 2021.
Kelly Sennatt Esten
LinkedInExperience: Chief Marketing Officer and COO, Enterprise · Toast
Chief Marketing Officer and COO, Enterprise at Toast since January 2026 (current), and Chief Marketing Officer at Toast from 2024 to 2026. Her Toast roles also include SVP and General Manager, Enterprise (2022–2024), Senior Vice President, Product Marketing, Market Insights & Pricing (2022) and Vice President of Product Marketing, Market Insights and Pricing (2019–2022); her profile says she joined Toast in 2017.
Michel Rbeiz
LinkedInExperience: SVP & General Manager, FinTech · Toast
SVP & General Manager, FinTech at Toast since March 2023 (current). He was Global Head of Strategy & Corporate Development at State Street (2019–2023) and Managing Director Corporate Strategy at State Street (2016–2017), and his profile describes a passion for growing and creating FinTech businesses and democratizing access to technology and financial services.
Molly (Stumbras) Donaher
LinkedInExperience: SVP GM, Payments · Toast
SVP GM, Payments at Toast since 2023 (current); her profile describes her as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Payments at Toast. Her other Toast roles include SVP Payments, Commercial Operations (2022–2023), VP Payments, Commercial Operations (2020–2022), Senior Director of Payments and Strategy (2018–2020) and Director of Business Operations (2016–2018).
Mona Breed
LinkedInExperience: Chief Information Officer · Toast
Chief Information Officer at Toast since July 2024 (current), a C-level Engineering and Technical role. She was also Chief Information Officer - Fanatics Collectibles at Fanatics (2022–2024), Chief Information Officer at Moody's Corporation (2018–2022) and Senior Vice President, Infrastructure at OppenheimerFunds (2016–2018).
Peter Sauerborn
LinkedInExperience: Chief Operating Officer · Toast
Chief Operating Officer of Toast since March 2025 (current), a C-level General Management role at a company the profile describes as a restaurant point of sale and management system. He was Executive Chair at FTD (2023–2025), Managing Director (CEO) at Catch (2020–2022) and Vice President Amazon Marketplace at Amazon (2010–2020), and has been a Board Member at Trade Me since 2022.
Robert Hale
LinkedInExperience: Sr. Vice President, Demand, Brand & International Marketing · Toast
Sr. Vice President, Demand, Brand & International Marketing at Toast since April 2023 (current), a role listed at Executive level; his profile headline reads SVP, Revenue, Brand & International Marketing @ Toast. His other Toast roles include Vice President, Demand, Brand & International Marketing (listed from 2019), Sr. Director, Demand Marketing (2018–2019) and Director, Demand Marketing (2016–2018).
Steve Fredette
LinkedInExperience: President, Co-founder & Director · Toast
President, Co-founder & Director of Toast, a role listed from May 2012 to the present (14 years and 3 months) in General Management at Founder level. In an April 2026 post shared on his profile, he wrote that Toast was launching its new brand platform, Built For Busy.
Choose the right perspective
Match the executive's business line to your question, since leaders of payments, fintech, consumer products and sales each see a different part of Toast's business. Use the role dates to judge how recent and how deep each person's view of a given function is.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Toast decide which new products to build for restaurants versus leave to partners?
- 02What does a partner or integration need to show to get distribution through Toast's sales and marketing channels?
- 03How does Toast price and bundle software, hardware and payments for restaurants of different sizes?
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