Experts

CraftMark Bakery was founded by a close circle of bakery products experts, all former executives from the frozen bread dough, cookie dough and muffin batters world. Seeing an opportunity to completely redefine the baked goods manufacturing industry, they envisioned an intelligent, highly automated commercial bakery that would not only represent the latest generation of high-speed manufacturing, but also fold in the top North American experts in R&D, process innovation, bakery operations, supply chain logistics, food commodities, food safety, marketing, and commercialization.

Expert Team at the High Tech Automated Commercial Bakery Facility in the USA

Meet Our Bakery Products Team: Experts from Across the Wholesale Frozen Bakery Industry

With over 300 years of collective bakery leadership expertise, we understand what it means to be true partners. We’re responsive, collaborative, nimble and incredibly adaptable. With specialists at every level, we are obsessively committed to delivering real-time solutions and speed to market. 

The CraftMark Leadership Team

  • Kurt Seagrist, CEO of CraftMark Bakery

    Kurt Seagrist

    Chief Executive Officer

  • Mike Bartikoski

    Chief Operating Officer

  • Pete Stressman CFO at CraftMark Bakery

    Pete Stressman

    Chief Financial Officer

  • Jim Zakian

    EVP & Co-Founder

  • Liz Rayo

    SVP, Marketing & Innovation

  • Jim Little

    SVP, R&D and Innovation

  • Tawna Millington

    SVP, Supply Chain

  • Meaghan Meyer

    SVP, Food Safety & Quality

  • Pauline Sassine

    SVP, Foodservice Sales

  • Andrew Simmon

    SVP, Global Accounts

  • Ben Napier VP Human Resources CraftMark Bakery

    Ben Napier

    VP, Human Resources

  • Dave Burtraw

    VP, Retail & ISB Sales

Make Our Experts Your Experts

Now that we’ve been introduced, we’d love to continue the conversation. Our baked goods manufacturing experts can:

  • Ideate with you to drive new platforms and breakthrough bakery concepts

  • Innovate new baked goods flavors and formats with our culinary focus

  • Commercialize new product launches and rapidly bring Foodservice and ISB bakery ideas to market

  • Drive formula optimization for your frozen bakery products

We take pride in being a transparent and highly responsive partner, solely focused on bakery solutions that grow your brand and connect with your customers. Make our experts your experts. You can learn more about the Customers We Serve, or just get started by filling out the form.