About Us

Built by Experts. Trusted by Operators.

Ladle empowers foodservice and retail operators to enhance efficiency, ensure compliance, and drive profitability. Through its suite of products – ComplianceMate, MeazureUp, and Storewise – Ladle helps multi-unit restaurants, convenience stores, and independent grocers improve food safety, streamline operations, and optimize pricing. By integrating automation, real-time insights, and industry expertise, Ladle enables businesses to make smarter decisions, reduce risk, and deliver consistent customer experiences.

Food Safety & Compliance

Protect your business with real-time monitoring and automated checklists.

Operational Efficiency

Replace manual work and drive profit with intelligent, automated solutions.

Smarter Pricing

Optimize margins and stay competitive with dynamic pricing insights.

The Future of Foodservice Operations Starts Here

At Ladle, we’re not just building software – we’re helping foodservice and retail operators thrive in an industry that never slows down. Whether you’re focused on compliance, pricing, or operational efficiency, we’re here to make it simpler, smarter, and more profitable for you.

Let’s move foodservice forward – together.

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Todd Gebski

Chief Executive Officer

Conor Cafferty

Chief Financial Officer

Shamail Tahir

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Peter Hoyt

Chief Revenue Officer

Jennifer Shelgren

Cheif Marketing Officer

Todd Gebski

Chief Executive Officer

Todd Gebski is the Chief Executive Officer of Ladle, where he leads the company’s mission to empower foodservice operators with solutions that drive operational efficiency, ensure compliance, and maximize profitability. Under his leadership, Ladle delivers a suite of purpose-built software solutions – ComplianceMate, MeazureUp, and Storewise – serving restaurants, grocers, convenience stores and more internationally. With more than two decades of executive experience in corporate development, strategy, marketing, and digital transformation, Todd brings a proven track record of building high-growth SaaS businesses and fostering winning cultures.

Prior to Ladle, he served as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at private equity-backed Motus, where he played a pivotal role in shaping corporate strategy, driving M&A, and accelerating market expansion. Todd’s career spans leadership positions at SiriusXM, SapientNitro, and SprintNextel, where he led digital commerce, multichannel marketing, and customer acquisition. His ability to blend strategic vision with operational execution has consistently fueled innovation and operational excellence. Todd lives in the Boston suburbs with his wife and three children.

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Conor Cafferty

Chief Financial Officer

Conor Cafferty serves as Chief Financial Officer at Ladle, leading Finance and Corporate Operations with a focus on driving growth and operational excellence. With extensive experience in private equity-backed SaaS, FinTech, and services companies, Conor excels at scaling high-growth organizations. Recently he was CFO at Affinaquest where he led equity and debt financing, restructured and built new finance and accounting team, and was responsible for turning around the operations and P&L of acquired product line.

Previously, held role of VP Finance & Payments at Nexus, leading FP&A, Accounting, and operational ownership of flagship payments business contributing to a successful exit to Bottomline Technologies. Conor’s entrepreneurial mindset and hands-on approach enables him to align capital allocation with strategic goals, fostering efficient, high-performing teams. His expertise spans FP&A, treasury management, systems integration, and investor relations, making him a pivotal leader in guiding Ladle’s financial strategy and operational success. He holds a B.S. in Finance from George Mason University’s Honors College, where he was a Division I varsity golfer and still competes in amateur tournaments. He resides in Northern Virginia with his wife and two sons.

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Shamail Tahir

Chief Product & Technology Officer

Shamail Tahir is a product and technology executive with over 20 years of experience leading cross-functional teams across product, engineering, support, and implementation. He has held leadership roles at global organizations including EMC and IBM, combining enterprise-scale expertise with the agility of high-growth startups. Known for driving customer-centric innovation, he excels at aligning strategy with execution to deliver scalable SaaS solutions that fuel growth and enhance customer outcomes. In his current role, he leads with a focus on collaboration, technical excellence, and end-to-end customer value.

Based in McKinney, Texas, Shamail lives with his wife and two children. Outside of work, he enjoys skateboarding and staying active, often trading the boardroom for a skateboard park on weekends.

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Peter Hoyt

Chief Revenue Officer

Jennifer Shelgren

Cheif Marketing Officer

Jennifer Shelgren is Ladle’s Vice President of Marketing and leads the company’s demand generation, brand strategy, and integrated go to market efforts.

Jen has spent more than twenty years helping SaaS companies build high performing marketing organizations that deliver predictable, measurable revenue growth. Jen focuses on strengthening the alignment between marketing and sales, builds modern digital marketing engines, and creates programs that increase lead volume, marketing sourced pipeline, and customer engagement.

Before joining Ladle, Jen led marketing teams across several technology and information companies where she built foundations that supported meaningful year over year growth.

Jen lives outside of Boston with her husband and their two college-age daughters.

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