Israel Hernandez is a portfolio analyst for Seligman Investments at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. He focuses on enterprise and application software. Previously, in 2014, Israel was senior equity research analyst, managing director, at MKM Partners covering enterprise software. Prior to that, he was senior equity research analyst, director, and head of U.S. software research at Barclays Capital. Israel received his B.S. in labor & industrial relations from Cornell University, and his MBA from the University of North Carolina.