Meet our leadership team
Mr. Vanderputten is an experienced fixed income trader who has traded in the Repo, Cash, Money Market, Interest Rate Futures, FX, and Interest Rate Swaps markets. Mr. Vanderputten was also the chief consultant at Société Générale in charge of installing new front and back-office systems. At Helix, Mr. Vanderputten uses his combined experience as a user and manager of fixed income applications to ensure that our systems are always developed with a client perspective in mind.
Betty Orgel is a certified project manager with sixteen years of software development experience. A former director for the New Jersey chapter of PMI, Ms. Orgel specializes in banking and investment technology in the US and Europe. As the senior project manager at Helix, Ms. Orgel is responsible for projects and their deliverables and in her role managing Customer Service, she ensures that Helix maintains the customer “high-touch” philosophy.
Nelson Jimenez has been with Helix since its inception in 1993, and plays a leading role in the design, development and implementation of the Helix platform. With two decades of experience in application integration, Mr. Jimenez specializes in interfacing Helix products with other back-office systems.
Mr. Brandt manages the sales activities for Helix Financial Systems. He has been with Helix Financial Systems since 2010. Mr. Brandt has more than 18 years of sales experience in the financial data and technology industries with prior sales positions at Standard & Poor’s Securities Evaluations and Classifications, Iverson Financial Systems and Thomson Securities Information Services. He is a graduate of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania.
Lou Fernandez has over fifteen years of experience in complex application development for the legal, pharmaceutical and financial markets. Under Mr. Fernandez’s leadership, Helix’s Repo, MBS and Back-Office applications have developed into global, Internet-based, multi-entity and multi-currency systems. As the leader of Helix’s development team, Mr. Fernandez has brought its products to the next level.
Our history
During the 1980’s and early 90’s, Repo was still a new product. The volatility of the Volker days was in full swing – and the idea of trading a matched book was novel. It’s not surprising that the “technology” behind Repo was fairly basic in those days. After executing a transaction, traders would typically grab a pen and write out multiple copies of a paper ticket. One of these tickets was then dropped in a tray on the desk, and, on a regular rotation, somebody would run over to pick up the latest stack and rush it to Operations. Positions needed to be calculated by hand. If something went wrong, traders needed to rifle through a mountain of paperwork. It was an arduous task and one prone to error.
HelixREPO started as a simple, in-house application built for computers with glowing green monitors. The technology has changed dramatically in the two decades since, and Helix’s offerings have expanded beyond Repo to the entire Fixed Income industry.
Some things haven’t changed. Former traders still make up a large part of our development team. Requests from clients still drive nearly all upgrades and enhancements. In fact, the relationship between business users and software developers is strong. Today, Helix Financial Systems, L.P. (formerly known as Sunrise Financial Systems, L.P.) is an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. has unparalleled access to some of the industry’s most experienced Fixed Income professionals, making our products one of the best adapted and most flexible tools in the marketplace.