Baking Team

California - San Diego

Linda Gonzalez - Bakery Market Manager

Linda has been with Panera for 5 years. Ever since she was little she knew she wanted to be a baker. She went to culinary school and studied abroad. She started at Panera as a baker and opened the culver city café , later on she became a BTS and then received an opportunity to be a BMM . She loves the fact that she got to grow with the company and now has the chance to inspire others.

California - Orange County

Henry Corado - Bakery Market Manager

Henry started with Panera Bread in 2009 with a passion for baking and growing with the company. He is excited about developing aa new layer of upcoming leaders. Originally from El Salvador, he is living the American dream. He enjoys sports, especially the Steelers. In his free time he enjoys snow boarding and practices marital arts and current holds a Blue Belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.

California - Los Angeles

Audias Corado Figueroa - Bakery Market Manager

Originally from EL Salvador, he has two brothers and a young sister. His favorite sport is soccer and some of his favorite foods are Pupusas and Italian food. He likes to go camping at least twice a year to Yosemite. Audias started as a baker in Risen Bread on September 2013 where he quickly moved up to Certified Baker Trainer, Baking Training Specialist, and a two years later got the opportunity to become the BMM for Manna LA. Audias feels that the people that he works with are amazing and that's what makes this company a great place to work for.

Eddie Leon - Bakery Market Manager

Eddie joined Manna in 2013 as a Baker and has moved up gradually. He is honored to be apart of other people's success story. No better satisfaction that to see growth within the company. He enjoys art and playing the guitar.

"If you’re in a position to make difference and don’t make a difference, you don’t deserve to be in that position”.

Michigan

Lesley Byrom - Bakery Market Manager

Lesley started with Panera in 2011 opening our Standale Café . She went from bakery opener to catering, to management and joined the baking team in 2014.
Lesley has 2 children one of which also works for Panera in our Downtown café.
Outside of work she enjoys family, friends, good music and the beach.
What she loves best about Panera is that we are an extended FAMILY!!

Megan Wilholt - Bakery Market Manager

Megan has been apart of the Panera family since 2014. Starting as a baker and moved on up to BMM. She grew up with a passion for baking, passed down from her grandmother. Went on to college and earned her Degree in Baking and Pastry Arts at Secchia Institute For Culinary Education.
Megan loves riding dirt bikes with her family, crafting, painting and enjoys the outdoors. She also enjoys playing video games with her husband and spending time with her dog and two cats.

Oregon/Washington

Misty Martin - Bakery Market Manager

Misty has been with Panera Bread since October 2007. Her favorite Panera items are the Tomato Basil Bread and Pecan Braid. She comes from a family of ten siblings, and she has one tiny human, Bodin and a toy poodle, Sophia of her own. She always enjoy being outdoors, either going on a hike, to the zoo, or just a picnic in the park.

Daniel Hewitt - Bakery Market Manager

Daniel joined Panera Bread in December of 2003. He has had a hand in developing the Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany markets, along with many visits to the Boston cafes. Daniel is proud to have held every position in bakery operations and was the trainer for every new manager brought into the Panera family. He has kept a close eye on them and watched them grow into general managers and even district managers in many other markets.
In 2014 Daniel and his family saw opportunities in the Portland market. So they packed up their belongings, sold their house and took the Oregon Trail across the country. In 2016 Daniel was adopted into the Manna family and was quickly promoted to bakery market manager.
In Daniel’s spare time you will find him riding one of his many bicycles either down Mt. Hood, along the coast or just on Portland’s many bicycle paths. Most likely to a food cart for a snack

Colorado

Dan Ventre - Bakery Market Manager

Bio joined Panera in 2007 as a Baker in Florida. In the past 10 year, Bio has excelled and is currently the BMM for East Denver and Colorado Springs. Bio served in the US Army for 11 years. During this time, he served in 2 tours traveling all over the world. Bio has a girlfriend, 2 daughters and 3 (soon to be 4) grandsons. When not working or with his family, Bio enjoys wood working, rebuilding cars, any types of crafts, collecting DVD's and Blue Rays.

Erin Romero - Bakery Market Manager

Originally from New Mexico, Erin joined the Panera family in 2011. She helped open the first Panera location in her hometown of Albuquerque and quickly moved into a CBT role. She transferred to the Colorado market in 2012 and continued to growing into a BTS role and assumed leadership of the Northern Colorado Market as BMM in 2015.

Erin has enjoyed baking from a very young age and graduated with an associate's degree in Pastry & Baking from Le Cordon Bleu, Scottsdale Culinary Institute. In her free time she enjoys spending time with her fiancé and camping trips with her family.

Karla Stout - Bakery Market Manager

Karla started with Panera Bread back in May 2010 as a Baker. She held the role of Trainer for 8 years and after that was offered a BTS role for Northern Colorado . She did a lot of moving when she was a child because her Dad was in the Airforce. When she was seven her dad passed away and her Mother moved them Colorado. She been married for eighteen years to her high school sweetheart. They have three children together, two girls and one boy. Her favorite thing to do as a family during the summer is to go camping. She really enjoys the mountains and being out in the sun during the summertime.