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Our Leadership

Todd Berlent
President, Chief Information Officer

Mr. Berlent is the President and Chief Information Officer of Helix Financial Services. He brings two decades of technology and financial services experience to the firm, having held senior positions supporting every major fixed income market. Prior to Helix, Mr. Berlent was Director of North American Fixed Income Technology at Deutsche Bank. He has also held positions within the hedge fund industry and as CTO of a major business-to-business exchange. Mr. Berlent holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.

Lou Fernandez
Vice President, Chief Technology Officer

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.

Nelson Jimenez
Vice President, Director of Application Development

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.

Betty Orgel
Vice President, Project Management

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 in addition to leading the development team to maximize efficient use of resources.

Bryan Vanderputten
Vice President, Business Development

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.