Lacework CEO and leadership

Vikram Kapoor is Founder and CTO @ Lacework. Prior to founding Lacework, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Bromium. At Bromium, he was responsible for managing the engineering team as well as creating and driving strategies in alignment with Bromium’s vision and business goals. Prior to joining Bromium, he managed the Database Storage Engine group within Oracle RDBMS. He was lead architect for several key Exadata technologies such as Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression. He was also Development Manager for the protocols group at Oracle where he designed and implemented major components of the NFSv4 server and led the team responsible for protocol development. He has held senior engineering roles at Pillar Data Systems and Valicert. He is a prolific inventor who holds several patents.

25+ years of executive leadership in public and venture-backed private tech companies

Strong operating experience at all company stages, from founding through post-IPO rapid growth, as well as restructuring / turnaround

-Structured, negotiated, closed and managed revenue-driven strategic partnerships and licensing relationships that have generated over $200M in revenue to date

Raised over $400M in private capital under a variety of financing structures and market conditions -- investors include Sutter Hill, Sequoia, Greylock, Benchmark, NEA, GV (Google Ventures), Tenaya, Venrock, TCV, Matrix, DAG Ventures, Salesforce.com Ventures, Intel Capital

Leadership experience in a range of sectors including enterprise SaaS, data analytics, broadband and enterprise communications infrastructure, semiconductors, communications software, and system integration

Led financial / operational restructurings and complex business / securities / IP litigation

Work extensively with boards and Audit / Compensation Committees facing complex business and legal issues under a range of market conditions

Built / managed long term relationships with buy-side / sell-side analysts and institutional investors ranging from public mutual funds to hedge funds and family offices

Meet SEC Financial Expert requirements for public company Audit Committee

Vikram Kapoor is Founder and CTO @ Lacework. Prior to founding Lacework, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Bromium. At Bromium, he was responsible for managing the engineering team as well as creating and driving strategies in alignment with Bromium’s vision and business goals. Prior to joining Bromium, he managed the Database Storage Engine group within Oracle RDBMS. He was lead architect for several key Exadata technologies such as Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression. He was also Development Manager for the protocols group at Oracle where he designed and implemented major components of the NFSv4 server and led the team responsible for protocol development. He has held senior engineering roles at Pillar Data Systems and Valicert. He is a prolific inventor who holds several patents.

Vikram Kapoor is Founder and CTO @ Lacework. Prior to founding Lacework, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Bromium. At Bromium, he was responsible for managing the engineering team as well as creating and driving strategies in alignment with Bromium’s vision and business goals. Prior to joining Bromium, he managed the Database Storage Engine group within Oracle RDBMS. He was lead architect for several key Exadata technologies such as Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression. He was also Development Manager for the protocols group at Oracle where he designed and implemented major components of the NFSv4 server and led the team responsible for protocol development. He has held senior engineering roles at Pillar Data Systems and Valicert. He is a prolific inventor who holds several patents.