About Jay Jacobs
Jay Jacobs is co-founder and chief data scientist of Empirical Security and the lead data scientist for EPSS, a free score that predicts which software vulnerabilities attackers will exploit.
He co-chairs the EPSS special interest group at FIRST and co-founded the Society of Information Risk Analysts and the Cyentia Institute.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Jay Jacobs in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Empirical Security, Inc. Current
Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist
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.
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FIRST Current
Co-chair, EPSS Special Interest Group
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Society of Information Risk Analysts
Co-founder
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Cyentia Institute
Co-founder
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Jay Jacobs works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Empirical Security, Inc. · Form D, Aug 3, 2026
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Edward Bellis
Co-founder & CEO, director
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Stephen Ward
Director
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John Cowgill
Director
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Michael Roytman
Co-founder & CTO, director