Dana Bowers

Chief Solutions Architect, Founder and Board of Directors at Venminder

📍 Elizabethtown, Kentucky, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 16 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2019
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2019
Board Member
Oct 2019
As a forward-thinking financial technology and software partner, we help community and regional banks, as well as organizations worldwide, solve their customers’ needs through open and agile technologies. Create World-Class Customer Experiences Compete in today’s open banking environment and exceed customers’ expectations with a unified, seamless banking experience. Your bank can grow assets, develop additional revenue streams and reach new customers by integrating digital technologies—while taking advantage of trusted fintechs’ embedded capabilities. Protect Your Institution’s Reputation and Ensure Compliance It’s a battle to navigate our constantly changing regulatory landscape and ensure compliance with current federal regulations. Minimize your risk of non-compliance penalties, protect your institution’s integrity and keep regulators satisfied by leveraging the latest tools. Safeguard Your Data, Systems and Users As cybersecurity incidents make headlines, it’s imperative that you stay ahead of the latest threats. Protect your organization around the clock and rest assured that you’re covered, with unparalleled support for detecting and remediating threats in real time. Boost Your System Performance Don’t accept a one-size-fits-all approach for your IT strategy. A scalable, efficient and tailored IT enterprise supports your growth and regulatory needs, maximizing the health and performance of your key applications, systems, networks and users. Maintain Communications with Customers Whether your customers prefer traditional documents or digital statements, modern communication keeps you connected. Multi-channel document services simplify access to statements and notices, reduce costs, shorten delivery times and enable new cross-marketing opportunities. Mitigate Risk and Manage Your Business Goals Reduce your time and expense spent managing security and compliance while ensuring your technology is aligned to business objectives.
2011
Rooibee Red Tea Company
Board Member
Nov 2011
2010
Associates in Pediatric Therapy
Board Member
Sep 2010
2002
CEO/Founder and Board of Directors
Jan 2002
Venminder is an industry recognized leader of third-party risk management solutions. Dedicated to third-party risk, the company is the go-to partner for software, high-quality assessments on vendor controls, certified subject-matter expertise and education. Venminder’s platform provides a centralized location to execute a third-party risk management program. It enables users to store documentation, onboard a vendor, track contracts, manage SLAs, send and manage questionnaires, manage due diligence and oversight, complete risk assessments, create workflows, run reporting and more. Assessments performed by Venminder’s qualified experts, including CISSPs, CPAs, financial risk analysts, paralegals and more, are readily available in an online library. The assessments enable clients to identify possible risks and understand areas of strength on their vendors’ information security and privacy standards, SOC reports, financial viability, business continuity/disaster recovery preparedness, contractual standards, regulatory compliance and more. Venminder clients also use the firm to streamline due diligence processes by outsourcing vendor document collection; and regularly consult with Venminder’s experts to ensure their third-party risk management policy and procedures meet industry standards. The Venminder platform is used by 1,000+ customers across a wide range of industries to execute their third-party risk management programs. As the company’s solutions are designed to accommodate growth and various levels of program maturity, customers range in size from small to Fortune 100 organizations. As the industry’s go-to leader, Venminder’s team of highly experienced professionals regularly speak at conferences, provide the latest research and educational content, host CPE credit eligible webinars and provide access to an online networking community for third-party risk professionals, Third Party ThinkTank. #thirdpartyrisk #vendorrisk #supplierrisk #vendormanagement
1997
Founder
Aug 1997
CYBERCOMMANDER is a division of OMNICOMMANDER. CYBERCOMMANDER provides training and auditing services for credit unions and their staff to ensure the highest level of knowledge when it comes to cybersecurity in order to keep their credit union safe, as well as their members who interact with their websites and conduct financial transactions online.
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