AIM members elected seven business leaders to serve for the first time on the association’s board of directors and re-elected seven others at a special membership meeting May 2.

Separately, the AIM board elected officers of the association and members of the AIM Executive Committee to serve for the next year. Gregory Buscone, Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Banking Officer at Eastern Bank, was re-elected as Chair of the Board; Tricia Canavan, President and CEO of The Tech Foundry in Springfield, was elected vice chair; Marie Johnson, Vice President of Finance and Treasurer at Ken’s Foods in Marlboro, will serve as treasurer; and Marianne Lancaster, President and Owner of Lancaster Packaging in Hudson, as clerk.

“The 3,400 members of AIM should feel confident in the ability of this distinguished group of business leaders to direct the statewide business association toward a bright future. We stand ready to meet the opportunities and challenges ahead,” Buscone said.

The AIM Board of Directors will have 64 members for 2025-2026. More than half are women and just under a quarter are people of color. Members represent companies from the Berkshires to Boston.

New members elected to the Board of Directors are:

• Sanjay Aggarwal, Co-Founder and Co-Owner of Finhive, Boston
• Caitlin Beresin, Director, US and State Affairs, Johnson & Johnson, Boston
• Auric Enchill, Head of Business Development, Elegant Stitches, Inc., Pittsfield
• Pamela Kuong, Market Director, Santander, Boston
• Tanisha Sullivan, President of Boston NAACP, Statewide & Head of External Engagement and Strategic Partnerships for Sanofi, Cambridge
• Michael Tamasi, President and CEO of AccuRounds, Avon
• Heather Whitney, Vice President of Strategy & Sustainability, and Co-Owner, The R.H. White Companies, Auburn

Re-elected to three-year terms on the board are:

• Christina Fisher, Amazon
• William Grant, Cummings Properties
• Leslie Greis, Kinefac Corporation
• Dominick Ianno, MassMutual
• Marie Johnson, Ken’s Foods, Inc.
• Marianne Lancaster, Lancaster Packaging Inc.
• Lynn Tokarczyk, Business Development Strategies

Elected as directors emeritus in recognition of long and distinguished service to the association:

• Donald Baldini, Liberty Mutual Insurance
• Tricia Canavan, Tech Foundry
• Jesse Stanesa, Fidelity Investments
• William Blanker, Retired
• Peter Chase, Retired
• Sam Cabot, Retired

The Board of Directors re-elected the following people to serve on the AIM Executive Committee:

• Joe Bahena, Joseph Abboud Mfg. Co.
• Brian Burke, Microsoft Corp.
• Carol Campbell, Chicopee Industrial Contractors
• Tricia Canavan, Tech Foundry
• Bill Grant, Cummings Properties, LLC
• Leslie Greis, Kinefac Corporation
• Joanne Hilferty, Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries
• Dominick Ianno, MassMutual
• Dan Kenary, Mass Bay Brewing Company
• Marianne Lancaster, Lancaster Packaging
• John Lynch, Lynch, DeSimone & Nylen
• Anthony Samuels, DRB Facility Services, Inc.
• Jesse Stanesa, Fidelity Investments
• Lynn Tokarczyk, Business Development Strategies

New members elected to the Executive Committee:

• Anne Broholm, CEO, Ahead, LLC, New Bedford
• Gary Evee, founder and Chief Executive Officer, Evee Security Consulting Group, Boston
• Mike Keneally, Owner, Accutech Packaging Inc., Foxboro