Senior Vice President of Corporate Relations
Greater Southeast Affiliate of the American Heart Association, Atlanta, Ga. 

The youngest senior vice president in the nation for the American Heart Association, Coker Gamble oversees corporate relations for six southeastern states and Puerto Rico. Since joining the American Heart Association, the nation's largest non-profit, devoted to reducing cardiovascular disease, she has been promoted six times in five years. Gamble has earned numerous awards for her work with the American Heart Association, including Rookie of the Year for outstanding professional performance, three consecutive Outstanding Fundraising Performance awards, the Sophomore of the Year award (a new award specifically developed to recognize Gamble's achievements), and several 'best in class' association-wide awards. In December 2005 when Gamble was serving the organization as senior regional director of the Metro Atlanta area, she was recognized as one of the organization's most promosing 'up and coming' leaders at the national leadership conference in Dallas, Texas.