Helaine Cooper, Federal Program Manager at Origami Risk

Helaine Cooper is the manager for federal programs at Origami Risk, a provider of cloud-based software-as-a-service solutions for risk management in various sectors, including government, health care, integrated risk and property and casualty insurance. 

She joined the company in October, bringing over two decades of experience identifying, developing and winning complex and diverse IT and green technology opportunities in support of federal agency mission initiatives. 

Cooper, a Potomac Officers Club member, previously served as federal business development representative and systems integrator vice president at Tellabs, according to her LinkedIn profile. 

Tom Parisi, vice president of federal sales at Tellabs, said Cooper played a key role in expanding Tellabs’ presence within the U.S. Army, Air Force and combatant command accounts. 

Her over 20-year career includes a stint as business development manager at Koverse, a Science Applications International Corp. company, and time spent as federal business development director and as deputy to the vice president of federal at Fluke Networks. 

She also held roles focused on business development at TKC Communications, Micro Warehouse and NCR Government Systems.

Cooper established technology services company Coop4 Federal in 2009 for the Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation and served as its CEO. Under her leadership, the company won a leasing contract with the Department of Health and Human Services.

Cooper holds a bachelor’s degree in strategic management from Purdue University.