Vikal Kapoor

Vikal Kapoor is Founding Partner of SevenTrain Ventures and the architect of Decision OS™ — a governed, vendor-agnostic decision-layer architecture, sector-agnostic by design and proven first where the bar is highest: Fortune 500 financial institutions. The same architecture now runs inside owner-operated businesses — because cost-per-decision economics don’t care how big the balance sheet is. His work rests on a single thesis: the unit of enterprise productivity is shifting from cost-per-worker to cost-per-decision, and the institutions that win will convert from systems of record to systems of decision.

He earned that thesis over twenty-five years inside the rooms where capital actually moves — JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Bloomberg, and the World Economic Forum — then crossed to the operator side, serving three times as CEO across US and European markets. Builder before advisor. Operator before investor.

Today he advises senior leaders in banking, wealth management, and hedge funds on agentic architecture, AI governance, and proving AI ROI — including frameworks bridging NIST AI RMF, SEC guidance, and SR 11-7. He co-authors The Intelligence Wars, SevenTrain’s research series on how AI and quantum technologies redraw competitive advantage and reallocate capital. On the investment side, he is Principal of 7TV Quantum LLC, a primary investor in PsiQuantum, with direct positions in FLYR Labs and Droom, and Founder of StateSet, an agentic e-commerce infrastructure company.

He is Professor of Practice at Hult International Business School, teaching AI, finance, and leadership. He holds a BS in Finance and Information Systems from the University of Maryland, College Park; a Master of Finance from Baruch College, completed under executive sponsorship from Deutsche Bank; and an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona, where he served as class co-president.

He lives in New Jersey with his family, where he raises his kids, still plays the sports he loves to argue about, and reads Krishnamurti and Joseph Campbell.