At 25, Sam Roth is helping steer the first phase of RXR’s $3 billion “mini city” known as Veridea on roughly 1,100 acres in Apex, between U.S. Highway 1 and N.C. 540.
As a project manager for Greensboro-based Samet Corp., she oversees more than 120 workers across three sites and $100 million in active construction.
In the field, tucked between excavators and red clay, she works from a corner office inside a trailer — and doesn’t shy away from ambition. “I want to disrupt the industry,” she says, sitting in the conference room. “There aren’t many women in operations running general contracting teams. I want to change that.”…