Sameka M. Jenkins, Forty Under 40 winner 2009

Sameka-Jenkins Age: 36

  • Commercial Client Specialist and Banking Officer, Carolina First Bank
  • Provides sales and administrative support to the Commercial Relationship Management team and provides customer service to commercial clients.
  • Serves as key resource related to loan and deposit product information and acts as secondary contact on client relationships.
  • Prepares documentation for commercial loans.

Community involvement

  • Board president, Charleston County HALOS (Helping and Lending Outreach Support).
  • Assistant financial secretary and dance committee chairwoman, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.
  • Owens Christian Academy Alumni Association chairwoman.
  • Age group adviser, Jack & Jill of America, Charleston chapter.
  • Kidscoast volunteer, Seacoast North Charleston Dream Center.

Personal mission statement: Give out of love, not obligation or necessity.

Best career advice you’ve ever been given: Never burn bridges and always be willing to ask for what you want.

Books on your nightstand: The Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier, Tiger Can’t Sleep by S.J. Fore and R.W. Alley, Pinkalicious by Elizabeth Kann & Victoria Kann. (The last two are children’s books I read repeatedly to my daughter.)

Favorite restaurant: Slightly North of Broad (S.N.O.B.).

Favorite hour of the day and why: 5 p.m. because I pick up my daughter Kamryn from school and she always brightens my day!

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