Trade Consulting Firm Hires Former BIS Agent

Torres Trade Advisory, a business and trade consulting firm, hired former export enforcement agent Donald Pearce as a senior adviser for its global risk, monitorship and investigations practice, the firm announced Jan. 20. Pearce previously served as a special agent with the Bureau of Industry and Security’s Office of Export Enforcement, where he helped in the prosecutions of “precedent-setting” export control cases and wrote the 2016 amendments to the Wassenaar Arrangement's Best Practices for Export Control Enforcement.