Edward Bellis

About Edward Bellis

Ed Bellis is co-founder and CEO of Empirical Security, which he joined as CEO in July 2025.

Earlier he was chief information security officer (CISO) of Orbitz. He co-founded Kenna Security in 2010 and was its CTO until Cisco bought it in 2021.

Experience

This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Edward Bellis in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.

Empirical Security, Inc. Current

Co-founder and CEO

Director

2025 – Present · Chicago, IL

Empirical Security sells exploit prediction models, a global one and one trained on each customer's data, to help security teams decide what to patch first.

KS

Kenna Security

Co-founder and CTO

CI

Cisco

OR

Orbitz

CISO

BA

Bank of America

CS

CSC

PO

Polymer

Board member

Key Colleagues at Startups

The people Edward Bellis works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.

Edward Bellis in the News

• Jul 22, 2026·Crain's Chicago BusinessAfter a $500M exit, this Chicago tech founder is back and building again
• Jul 20, 2026·AxiosExclusive: Empirical Security raises $25M

Sources

1. SECEmpirical Security, Inc. Form D, filed Aug 3, 2026
2. OfficialEmpirical Security Series A press release, EIN Presswire (2026-07-20)
3. OfficialEmpirical Security seed press release, PR Newswire (2025-07-17): joins as CEO
4. Officialempiricalsecurity.com, 'Why I Decided to Join Empirical Security' (2025-07-17)
5. Officialempiricalsecurity.com, Ed Bellis on Kenna (co-founded in 2010 as Orbitz CISO)
6. Officialpolymerhq.io, company page (board members)