Kimberley Drakeford

Group Sales Support Specialist
Charleston
Phone: 843-571-1155 Ext: 3063
kdrakeford@dgilston.com

A native to Columbia, SC, Kimberley attended the College of Charleston where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication.

While attending the College of Charleston, Kimberley worked as the Assistant House Manager at the Ronald McDonald House. Her responsibilities included supporting relationships with houseguests as well as hospital personnel, supervising front desk staff, completing internal audits for the Board of Directors, and creating and maintaining Medicaid billing.

After leaving the Ronald McDonald House, Kimberley working in both property management and college housing. In these capacities, she was responsible for assisting with budgets, conducting inspections, monitoring and enforcing occupancy policies and procedures., and providing data analysis that was used in strategic planning.

Kimberley’s current role at the Gilston Agency is to work directly with Group Agents who are exploring medical and ancillary insurance for options for small to mid-sized businesses. Specifically, her duties include assessing group quote requests, completing quote requests, working with agents to seek alternates or additional lines of coverage if appropriate, scrubbing and submitting new sale paperwork, and finalizing all internal systems for all sold and renewal cases.

Kimberley lives in West Ashley with her husband, Avery, and son, Kade. In her spare time, she enjoys spending time with her family, watching movies (she is a big movie buff!) and karaoke. Kimberley also participates in a weekly bible study group with friends from college.