Helen Mikkelsen - Managing Director Investor Relations Division

Helen has more than 15 years experience in financial journalism, corporate communications and investor relations. She began her career as a journalist with New Zealand’s leading business newspaper, The National Business Review, and was soon advising some of that country’s leading companies on their corporate communications and investor relations strategies.  Upon moving to the United States in 1999, she worked on Wall Street with The Carson Group and Thomson Financial providing investor relations support to a wide range of corporations including Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Trevelocity.com and American Greetings. She transferred to Southern California to establish an investor relations consulting office and then joined the executive team of The Wet Seal, Inc. as Vice President Investor Relations and Corporate Communications. Helen brings this broad range of corporate and consulting experience across multiple industries to the Global IR Group team.