Pat Wilkison

Pat has led the creation of several multi-billion dollar companies, or divisions of Fortune 100 companies. He is viewed as a globally renowned expert in hyper-scale data storage and compute architecture. He was in the trenches helping create data storage and compute infrastructure for Google, Facebook, Amazon, and many others. Prior to founding Exponential in 2015, he was the “growth guy” for Western Digital starting, scaling and running multi-billion dollar P&Ls.

In addition to a degree in engineering from West Point, he was a Provident Scholar at the Center for Investment Studies at the University of Southern California (USC) while completing his MBA, where he studied under the iconic investor and professor Dr. Guil Babcock. Pat was a portfolio manager for the Provident Growth Fund running investments in the Technology Sector.