Taylor Bentley

Taylor Bentley is a Senior Economist III for Fashion Subsidiaries at Amazon, where they lead economic initiatives for Shopbop and Zappos, specializing in causal inference to develop econometric and machine learning models that optimize retail processes. They previously served as Head of Economics at Zappos Family of Companies from 2018 to 2024 and as an Assistant Professor of Marketing at The University of Texas at Austin's Red McCombs School of Business from 2015 to 2018. Taylor holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Principia College and both an MBA and a Ph.D. in Marketing from Washington University in St. Louis.