Tim Tierney, Vermont director of international trade and business recruitment, has been elected to the New England-Canada Business Council Board of Directors.Tierney serves as the main point of contact for Vermont state government for trade and direct foreign investment through his position at the Department of Economic Development at the Agency of Commerce and Community Development. He oversees the business support team, the State Trade Expansion Program and two social equity business assistance programs.

Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility welcomed three new members to the organization’s board of directors. They are John Kim, graduate programs career adviser at the University of Vermont Grossman School of Business; Karen Lawson, co-owner and chief impact officer of Lawson’s Finest Liquids; and Kate Ogden, head of advocacy and movement building at Seventh Generation.

Civil litigator Margarita Warren has been elected as a director and shareholder at the Burlington law firm Dinse. Warren joined Dinse in 2019 following her tenure at a civil litigation defense firm representing clients in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and clerking for the Hampden Superior Court in Springfield, MA.