Leadership

Our leadership team, with its diversity of infrastructure design expertise and professional experience, drives transformative change across the heart of the Southeast with a can-do culture of collaborative excellence and entrepreneurial passion.

The team fuels CRANSTON’s long legacy of success with talented and dedicated employees, as well as long-term partner relationships built on financial and environmental stewardship, honesty, respect, fairness, and transparency. Our mission: to empower communities to thrive.

Meet the Team

Tom Dunaway, PE, MBA

Vice President of Operations

James Dean, PE

Regional Operations Lead (CSRA)

Dennis Welch, Sr, PE, MBA

Strategic Growth Officer

Rob C. Still, Jr., SE, PE, LEED AP

Principal of Structural Engineering, Group Manager

Lance Cheely, RLA, MBA, LEED AP

Principal of Landscape Architecture, Manager of Projects
Joy Lester

Joy Lester, MPA

Business Development and Capital Funding Manager

Hilary Peterson

Marketing and Administration Manager
Tom Robertson

Thomas Robertson, PE

Retired President and Civil Engineering Consultant

John Attaway, PLS

Survey Group Manager

Megan Smith, PE

Charleston Civil Group Manager

Carrie Morgan

Regional Finance Manager, SE

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David Clark

Director of Information Technology

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Daniel Bates, MPPM

Director of Communications

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