Bio

Ms. Benedek joined CD&R in 2022 after a 20+ year career at GE. Most recently, she served as the New Product Launch Program Director at GE Renewable Energy, where she developed and executed the risk mitigation strategy to ensure a successful on time launch of GE’s Haliade-X offshore wind turbine. Before that, she created and executed the vision of a Special Task Force Team to address high impact supply chain problems across the businesses. Previously, she led a strategic initiative to build a Supply Chain Center of Excellence in Hungary focused on developing new, low-cost suppliers in emerging regions. Ms. Benedek has also held Global Commodity Leader roles in GE Energy, where she was responsible for $900 million in annual spend of highly engineered products. Ms. Benedek has an M.B.A. in finance and economics from the University of Technology and Economics in Budapest, Hungary and a B.A. in logistics and economics from the Budapest Business School.