Elena Gomez

Elena Gomez is the President and Chief Financial Officer at Toast, where she oversees global finance, investor relations, corporate development and business operations. Under her leadership, Toast launched its initial public offering in 2021. Prior to Toast, Elena was the CFO of Zendesk and held finance leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies, including Salesforce, Visa, and Charles Schwab. Elena has a passion for helping organizations drive scale through cycles of massive growth. She was named to the list of Most Influential Women in Business in 2017 by the San Francisco Business Times. Elena currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors at PagerDuty. She is Chair of the Board for the Haas Business School at Berkeley. She also serves on the non-profit boards of Ladies Who Launch and the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco. Elena graduated with a business degree from the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business.