Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has appointed Marta Benedek as European Director of the Portfolio Company Procurement Program. Benedek will work with the supply chain and procurement leaders at the Firm’s European portfolio companies to create value through optimized supply chain. Benedek joins CD&R after a 20-year career at General Electric, bringing deep expertise in establishing low cost suppliers in emerging regions, strategic negotiations, new product launches and supply chain operations. Most recently Benedek served as New Product Launch Program Manager at GE Renewable Energy, where she developed and executed the risk mitigation strategy to ensure a successful on time launch

Willkie Farr & Gallagher (Willike) has appointed Patrick J Sandor as a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, where he will be part of Willkie’s Private Equity Practice Group. Sandor was previously a partner at Wilson Sonsini. His arrival follows the addition of private equity partners Ray LaSoya and Joe Kaczorowski, who joined Willkie’s Los Angeles office in February.    Sandor’s practice is focused on private equity buyout and investment transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and carve-outs, restructurings and recapitalisations, and growth and later-stage financings. He represents many leading private equity funds and their portfolio companies,

The Riverside Company, a global private investor focused on the smaller end of the middle market, has promoted Jason Fulton to Partner at the Riverside Capital Appreciation Fund (RCAF). Fulton, who has worked for Riverside in the US and Australia, was previously a Principal at RCAF. Fulton has been an integral part of the leadership team on the firm’s recent investments in: Abracon, Clinical Education Alliance, HMI Glass, iCEV and Red Nucleus. Since joining Riverside in September 2011, Fulton has been involved in or led eight portfolio company investments, five exits and 27 add-on investments. Launched in 1988, the Riverside

Menlo Ventures has appointed Kandace Elam as Director of GTM Talent with a focus on cultivating relationships with top sales and marketing executives across the firm’s focus areas – SaaS, infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Elam comes to Menlo with deep experience in go-to-market recruitment and has already placed top executives at several of the firm’s most prominent portfolio companies, including Poshmark (NASDAQ: POSH) and Benchling.  Prior to Menlo, she spent the past decade as an executive recruiter at Daversa Partners, building management teams for venture-backed startups, growth equity deals, and public companies. Most recently, she was Head of Talent Network for