Experience: Denise James Gatling is an award-winning and highly recognized expert in organizational leadership for challenging corporate projects and grassroots community development initiatives. As a GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) employee for over 24 years, Gatling has demonstrated her ability to build, maintain, and leverage relationships to successfully manage and implement strategic change solutions to achieve desired state. Currently, Gatling is the Director of Global Supplier Diversity and Business Development at GSK. She is responsible for leading the initiative by implementing successful strategies to progress diverse business inclusion and development efforts across the globe. She has served as a US delegate to Australia, London, China, Brazil, and South Africa to advance minority business development in those countries. Gatling serves on numerous boards and councils including chair, GlaxoSmithKline and Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's Supplier Business Initiative; chair, National Corporate Advisory Council of the Minority Business Roundtable; EVP, The Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at Wake Forest University School of Medicine; member, Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Corporate Advisory Council; member, Students In Free Enterprise Board; member, The Conference Board: Supplier Diversity Leadership Council, member, GlaxoSmithKline's Political Action Committee, member, Executive Advisory Council of the School of Business and Economics at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Gatling holds a bachelor's of science in business administration from North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University and an MBA from Meredith College.