Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand, Helen started her television career over 10 years ago at Hat Trick Productions working as a Production Accountant on a broad spectrum of programming from Whose Line is It Anyway to Drop the Dead Donkey.
After production accounting on the film Shakespeare in Love, Helen returned to Hat Trick as a Production Manager on programmes such as Have I Got News for You and Room 101.
She moved from Hat Trick to manage the location and reality / factual entertainment programme Celebrity Big Brother 1 and Big Brother 2 at Endemol, moving to 12 Yard as a Production Manager working on a variety of start ups for the new company such as the successful and long running lottery series for the BBC In It to Win It, Emmy Award Winning Without Prejudice for Channel 4 and winner of the Montreux Silver Rose Men Are Better Than Women? for Discovery, also gaining experience in Daytime programming with successful BBC daytime quiz show Eggheads.
She moved to the BBC as a Unit Manager and set up the first of the prime time factual entertainment series of Strictly Dance Fever.
Helen joined Optomen in 2005 as Unit Manager responsible for the first series of The F Word and was subsequently promoted to Head of Production in December 2005. In October 2006, she joined the Board as Director of Production and was promoted to Deputy Managing Director in October 2008.