# B. Scott Davis

> Brian Scott Davis is Western Digital's executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer, a University of North Carolina graduate who joined the storage company in 1988 and rose through regional, channel, OEM and worldwide sales leadership. His career spans the hard drive's journey from a component sold by the megabyte to infrastructure planned by the exabyte, and his recent public writing argues that AI's overlooked constraint is the durable, economical storage of data that keeps accumulating.

- **Role:** Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Western Digital
- **Organizations:** Western Digital, WD
- **Education:** B.S. in Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School
- **Known for:** Built a career of more than 38 years at Western Digital across sales and executive leadership roles., Led sales organizations spanning Latin America, the Americas, strategic accounts, global channels and regional OEM customers., Joined Western Digital's executive leadership team as chief sales and marketing officer in February 2025.

## Career timeline

- **1988** — Joined Western Digital and began a series of sales roles of increasing responsibility.
- **2003** — Became vice president of worldwide sales, a position he held through 2013.
- **2006-2007** — Temporarily led Western Digital's EMEA sales organization during a leadership transition.
- **2013** — Became senior vice president of worldwide sales, channel and regional OEMs.
- **2025-02** — Appointed executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer as Western Digital completed the planned separation of its flash business.
- **2025-2026** — Published a series of WD essays about HDD economics, backup resilience and AI infrastructure as a persistent data system.

## Achievements

- Built a career of more than 38 years at Western Digital across sales and executive leadership roles.
- Led sales organizations spanning Latin America, the Americas, strategic accounts, global channels and regional OEM customers.
- Joined Western Digital's executive leadership team as chief sales and marketing officer in February 2025.
- Served as executive sponsor of Western Digital's We.WIN employee resource group and participated in its 2025 International Women's Day event, attended by more than 500 employees worldwide.
- Named a finalist in the Super Global category of the 2026 BayAreaCMO ORBIE Awards.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — Published two WD essays reframing AI data centers as persistent data systems and arguing that reliability, scalability and storage economics matter alongside compute.
- **2026-03** — Published an enterprise-focused World Backup Day essay connecting recoverability with AI readiness, governance and long-term data value.
- **2026-02** — Reflected publicly on WD's first year after the Sandisk spinoff, its rebrand, Nasdaq-100 re-entry and technology road map toward 100TB HDDs.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-scott-davis-ba463413

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Last updated: 2026-08-21