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Last year, the business community lost an advocate, mentor, and most importantly, a friend.

Eason, Pamela (Prince-Eason) wasn’t just the former President and CEO at Women's Business Enterprise National Council - WBENC. She was a force for good.

For nearly 15 years, Pam led women’s business professional development at WBENC, the largest certifier of women-owned businesses in the U.S. Under her leadership, WBENC significantly expanded its work with Fortune 500 companies and dedicated efforts to underrepresented entrepreneurs.

This included collaborations with mission-aligned organizations like the National Business Inclusion Consortium.

NBIC advocates for the business interests of a diverse range of people, including LGBTQ+ folks, ethnic minorities, individuals with disabilities, and women business owners, representing a total of over $9 trillion in annual consumer spending power and significant contributions to the marketplace & workplace.

Yesterday, at the 2026 WBENC National Conference, Ampcus CEO and founder Anjali "Ann" Ramakumaran accepted the National Business Inclusion Consortium’s inaugural Pamela Prince-Eason National Advocate Impact Award. It was presented by interim WBENC CEO Nedra Dickson, WBENC COO Jill Sasso, and NGLCC Co-Founder and President Justin Nelson.

“Pam always believed in working together, be it with her team, the WBE business community, corporate members, agencies, RPO’s or other nonprofits,” Ann shared. “But it was how she did these things – forming connections, building community, creating collaborations – and the way she wrapped her work in that non-negotiable respect for the individual that, for me, defines Pam’s legacy.”

If you're in Salt Lake City this week, make sure to say hello and share a memory about Pam with us! 👋

Thank you Susan Allen and USPAACC team for a Fantastic Procurement, Business and Tech Conference in 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐨, 𝐓𝐗 last week. Thank you to all members of Corporate America, Agencies and Business community for all that you all do.

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Charley 𝐀𝐦𝐩𝐜𝐮𝐬 accepting the Fast 100 business award.

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Phani 𝐀𝐦𝐩𝐜𝐮𝐬 presenting at the USPAACC Scholarship Luncheon.

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Thank you Hans 𝐉𝐏𝐌𝐂, Sebastin 𝐔𝐒 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐤, Daren 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚 and Dennis 𝐀𝐖𝐒 all great insights and great panel discussion appreciate you all. Ann 𝐀𝐦𝐩𝐜𝐮𝐬 enjoyed moderating the AI panel in 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐨, 𝐓𝐗 last week.

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TPRM in the age of AI is already hard. Your vendor oversight doesn't have to be.

We spoke with our Ampcus, Ampcus Cyber, and Ampcus Forensics SMEs about building ongoing resilience. In our latest blog, they discussed three use cases reshaping third party risk management for BFSI organizations:

1️⃣ Al-Powered Fraud Detection is creating new Model Risk Exposure

2️⃣ Fourth-Party Concentration Risk disrupts critical banking operations

3️⃣ Al-Accelerated Cyber Threats are outpacing traditional assessments

Learn how your organizations can build ecosystem

resilience: https://ampcus.com/tprm-in-the-age-of-ai-is-already-hard-your-vendor-oversight-doesnt-have-to-be/

Day 1 of GFMI's Third Party Risk for Financial Institutions Conference is in the books, and Ampcus Group President Salil Sankaran called it a "great event." 🙌

As Joe Scarlato of Ampcus Forensics prepares to hit the stage this morning, he shared an insight from a conversation he had yesterday: "AI is not a buzzword any more - it's THE reality all TPRM professionals need to assess and be aware of. With Anthropic's Mythos hitting the street, risk propagation is more impactful than ever."

Doug Bogle of Ampcus Cyber added: "Every AI vendor a financial institution onboards today is an extension of its attack surface. The questionnaire your team sent last quarter assumed a static model — but that model has been retrained, repointed at new data, and connected to APIs you didn't approve. Cyber due diligence has to move at the speed the ecosystem actually changes, not the speed of your audit cycle.”

Catch us in the Big Apple while you can! 🏃‍♂️‍➡️🍏

Learn more: https://www.ampcuscyber.com/complyx/wizard/

🏙️ Team members from Ampcus Group will be in NYC this week for the 24th Edition of GFMI's Third Party Risk for Financial Institutions Conference.

With a focus on enhancing third party risk oversight in the US financial sector, our team will be onstage sharing insights amid rising regulatory scrutiny and increasing vendor complexity.

Joe Scarlato, EVP and Global Technical Lead, will present a session on how Third‑Party Risk Management (TPRM) is being reshaped by AI, cloud dependency, and deeply interconnected vendor ecosystems. It will include practical guidance on building an intelligent TPRM model focused on resilience, accountability, and ecosystem‑wide visibility heading into 2026 and beyond:

“Today, financial institutions rely on external large language models, AI-driven fraud engines, decisioning platforms, autonomous agents, and predictive analytics providers to support critical operations. As a certified fraud examiner, I see it all the time. These systems introduce entirely new categories of risk: model integrity, hallucination risk, biased outcomes, opaque decision-making, synthetic identity fraud, and evolving regulatory scrutiny. Traditional TPRM frameworks were never designed for this.” 💡

If you'll be in New York, reach out and let's set something up.

https://ampcus.com/how-modern-cisos-are-rethinking-compliance-and-vendor-risk/

Edison Electric Institute- Annual EEI Supplier Engagement Conference.

Thank you EEI team for a fantastic summit in Philadelphia.

Members of Corporate America, Supplier community and community partners come together and continue to collaborate, innovate and work together to bring positive impact in the Electric Power Industry.

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