Meet the BoardThe four member elected board brings a diverse background of public and private sector experience.
Board members serve for four one year rotations as secretary, treasurer, vice president, and president. |
The Board
Nina Sidneva, President
Nina Sidneva is originally from Lithuania who moved to U.S. to pursue education. Nina Sidneva has over 15 years of energy related experience. She spent over a decade in the energy industry working for the U.S. DOE Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Avista Utilities, Tacoma Power and Seattle City Light. Most recently, she worked at Starbucks Coffee Company hedging Starbucks price risk exposure to diesel, natural gas, electricity, fiber, plastics, sugar, and wheat. She was also a project manager on the first solar investment for Starbucks in 2017. Nina holds Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Washington and B.A. in Economics and International Business from Whitworth University.
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Bill Anderson, Vice President
Most recently Bill was the Executive Director of the Computational Finance & Risk Management graduate program in the UW Department of Applied Mathematics where he helped launch the MS degree in 2011. He was instrumental in administration, finance, operations, marketing, recruiting, personnel hiring, management, online program rollout, industry relations, and student placement in his tenure at the UW. Since his retirement from the university in 2016, Bill has remained active with the UW, other regional universities, and the CFA through his participation in the Ethics in Finance initiative. He was one of the main organizers of the inaugural NABE Tech 2017 Economics Conference in Seattle.
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Samrat Bhattacharya, Treasurer
Samrat Bhattacharya is an economist at Amazon with experience in working across various functional areas including marketing, finance / asset Management, logistics analysis, workforce capacity planning, international Finance and labor economics. Prior to joining Amazon in 2017, Samrat worked over 10 years in the financial services industry. He was working as a senior business analytics manager at PNC bank, where he helped to build a framework to optimally allocate marketing budget across products, channels and geographic regions to maximize the return on investment. Samrat earned a Ph.D. in Economics from The Ohio State University, with concentrations in labor economics and econometrics. He also has a M.A. and M.Phil from the Delhi School of Economics, India.
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Taylor Marr, Secretary
Taylor Marr is a senior economist, data scientist, and visualization expert at Redfin, the tech-powered real estate brokerage. Marr analyzes and reports on trends in housing affordability, urban planning, and migration patterns in the United States. He also pays special attention to the national economy and new construction trends with a constant pulse on census data. Marr’s key research includes a compilation and analysis of national data on evictions, highlighting the scale of the issue and possible solutions. He also produces a quarterly analysis of US migration patterns based on an algorithm he built using Redfin.com user search data. Marr holds an MA in international and development economics from the University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany and a BS from the University of South Dakota.
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