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
Bill Anderson, President
Most recently Bill was the Executive Director of the Computational Finance & Risk Management graduate degree 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. He retired from the UW in 2016 after a decade of educational service. Prior to the UW, he had a 25 year career in the software and networking industries. In addition to his local role with the SEC, Bill participates as a member of the organizing committee for the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) Tech Economics Conference (TEC2019)
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Samrat Bhattacharya, Vice President
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, Treasurer
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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Olga Yang, Secretary
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