{"id":2158,"date":"2006-06-14T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2006\/06\/14\/supplier-diversity-in-pittsburgh\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T08:32:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T12:32:37","slug":"supplier-diversity-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/supplier-diversity-in-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Supplier Diversity in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kudos go out to Elwin Green at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for writing this piece on PNC\u2019s new supplier diversity executive, Eunice Sykes.<\/p>\n<p>Though I am a big fan of the Post-Gazette, I do have to say that corporate procurement is a topic that they don\u2019t cover frequently enough. 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