Brenton Cloud, 31

Brenton Cloud spent many days in the back of a pickup truck when he was a kid, going from job to job with his father, who ran Manatee Termite & Pest Control.

The young Cloud would watch his dad, Gene Cloud III, tent and treat homes for termites. Two other generations of Clouds did the same work, going back to when Brenton Cloud’s great-grandfather started the business in 1934 in Manatee County. While it was fun for a young boy, Cloud had no desire to go into pest control for a living. “I never thought in a million years I would follow in my father’s footsteps,” he says.