Title: Senior Vice President

Company: Tablerock Land Services, LLC

Location: Gulf Breeze, Fla.

Celebrating her first year as senior vice president of Tablerock Land Services, LLC, Lori Cruse continues to garner 25 years of engineering consulting services. At Tablerock Land Services, LLC, she draws upon her expertise in project management to provide right-of-way and engineering services for transportation, utility, and oil and gas industries. Throughout her work-week, Ms. Cruse helps in the business development of the company, and is able to talk to land owners and put them at ease has been the highlight of her career.

Ms. Cruse attributes her success to treating people the way that she would like to be treated. Initially, she became involved in her profession because when she was 19, she did abstracting for an oil and gas company. When the oil industry was slow, she went into the right-of-way services at AT&T. In five years, Ms. Cruse intends to grow the business.