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.
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.
Peter Hoyt
Chief Revenue Officer
A strategic revenue leader with deep SaaS experience, Peter has spent more than a decade building and scaling high-performing sales organizations at fast-growing technology companies, including Peek and Houzz. He has a strong track record of entering new markets, developing exceptional leadership teams, and implementing operational discipline that drives sustainable growth. Recognized for his collaborative leadership style and people-first mindset, Peter is passionate about building ambitious, high-performing cultures that know how to win – and have fun along the way.
Peter lives in Nashville with his wife and four children. Outside of work, he enjoys exercising, live music, watching his kid’s youth sports, and traveling to the nearest coast to get in the ocean any chance he gets.
Jennifer Shelgren
Chief Marketing Officer
Jennifer Shelgren is Ladle’s Chief Marketing Officer 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.
Christian Swango
Chief Financial Officer
Christian Swango is a strategic finance and operations executive with over 40 years of experience providing financial planning & reporting, tax & audit compliance, M&A and human resource support to private equity portfolio companies, venture-backed startups and both small and large private businesses.
Chris began his career with twelve years in public accounting where he worked with companies of varying sizes across multiple industries before moving into the private sector. Chris is a trusted servant-leader that ensures that other company executives are supported with timely, accurate and actionable data so that those executives can successfully execute the company’s operating plans.
Chris grew up in Pittsburgh, PA and currently resides in La Quinta, California with his wife. In his spare time, he enjoys golfing and spending time with family & friends.
Jim Martin
Vice President, Strategic Account Management & Operations
Jim leads Ladle’s strategic accounts and operations teams. He partners with some of the largest names in food service, from global contract food-service providers to internationally recognized franchise brands. His teams help these enterprise customers deliver safe, consistent, and efficient operations across thousands of locations. Jim has more than 20 years of leadership experience at technology companies including Blackboard and BrightBytes. He is passionate about building high-performing teams and turning operational insight into measurable results for customers.
Steven Miller
Executive Vice President, Grocery Pricing Operations
Steven Miller leads Ladle’s grocery organization, including sales, customer onboarding, support, and software development for the Storewise by Ladle technology portfolio, with a focus on accelerating growth and innovation. He brings decades of experience in technology and automation, including 12 years as a grocery wholesaler CIO. Throughout his career, he has worked with retailers, wholesalers, and vendors to automate complex processes, improve the flow of information between organizations, and reduce the manual work required to run their businesses. At Ladle, he is guiding the next phase of the company’s grocery pricing strategy, including continued investment in StoreKeeper and ReceiptKeeper. Steven is passionate about giving independent grocers technology built around the way they actually operate.
Alex Potashnik
VP of Technology
Alex Potashnik is a technology executive bringing AI-native speed and deep systems rigor to Ladle. He has shown that teams of engineers orchestrating AI agents can outperform conventional teams in both velocity and quality, shipping multiple features per engineer per day. Behind that pace are two decades of hands-on work in high-performance systems, including real-time distributed platforms, low-latency trading engines, and cloud infrastructure built for massive scale and high availability. Alex learned the craft at Amazon, Microsoft, Tableau, and Cloudera, and holds a CS degree from UCLA and an MBA from Berkeley Haas. For the last eight years, he has owned all of technology at startups, reporting to CEOs and growing engineering teams several times over. 🚀