About Michael Roytman
Michael Roytman is co-founder and CTO of Empirical Security.
He was chief data scientist of Kenna Security, a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco, and co-founder and executive chair of Dharma Platform, which BAO Systems acquired.
Experience
This experience comes from official bios and from SEC filings. For roles taken from filings, the years are when the filings name Michael Roytman in the role, so the role may have started earlier or lasted longer.
Empirical Security, Inc. Current
Co-founder and CTO
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.
FC
Forbes Technology Council Current
Member
KS
Kenna Security
Chief Data Scientist
CI
Cisco
Distinguished Engineer
DP
Dharma Platform
Co-founder and Executive Chair
SA
Society of Information Risk Analysts
Board member
CR
Cryptomove
Board member
SC
Social Capital
Board member
Key Colleagues at Startups
The people Michael Roytman works with at each company, as listed on that company's latest Form D.
Empirical Security, Inc. · Form D, Aug 3, 2026
EB
Edward Bellis
Co-founder & CEO, director
SW
Stephen Ward
Director
JC
John Cowgill
Director
JJ
Jay Jacobs
Co-founder & Chief Data Scientist