Eddie Ackerman
Eddie partners closely with founders to build finance and operating functions that scale effectively as companies grow. His work spans capital and debt raises, financial modeling, M&A readiness, benchmarking analyses, and accounting operations optimization. He also leads financial operations and diligence efforts for Seligman Ventures. Previously, as Finance Operating Partner at Thomvest Ventures, Eddie served […]
Ashish Kakran
Ashish focuses on early-stage investments across cloud infrastructure, AI, cybersecurity, and modern data center technologies. Over the course of his investing career, he has backed category-defining companies including Cohere, Harness, Isovalent (acquired by Cisco), and Opaque Systems, bringing a hands-on, founder-first approach informed by deep technical expertise and go-to-market insights. Prior to Seligman Ventures, he […]
Jonathan Wang, CFA
Jonathan Wang is an associate portfolio analyst for Seligman Investments at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. In this role, he focuses on information services, professional services, exchanges and retail brokerages. Jonathan joined Seligman Investments in 2015 as a research analyst. Prior to his current role, he worked on our trading desk supporting the Seligman Technology Team. Previously, […]
Umesh Padval
Umesh brings over 35 years of operating and board experience, including 19 years of venture investing. Prior to venture investing, he was the CEO and president of C-Cube Microsystems, which he successfully scaled and sold to LSI Logic. He serves on the board of Impinj (Nasdaq: PI) and has served on seven other public company […]
Matt Gmitro
Matt Gmitro is an associate portfolio analyst for Seligman Investments at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. In this role, he focuses on consumer-related short positions. Previously, Matt was a trading analyst at Guggenheim Partners and most recently an Associate at The TCW Group covering technology sector corporate credit investments. Matt joined Seligman Investments in 2023 and has […]
Van Wilshire
Van Wilshire is a managing director and head of derivative strategies for Seligman Investments at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Prior to joining Seligman Investments in 2024, Van worked as a managing director at William O’Neil where he was the head of derivative strategies across the equity platform. Before that, Van was a director at Citi where […]
Sanjiv Wadhwani
Sanjiv Wadhwani is a portfolio analyst for Seligman Investments at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Sanjiv has 18 years of investment management experience. He joined the Seligman Technology Group in 2016. He covers a broad array of communications equipment companies. Prior to joining Columbia Threadneedle, Sanjiv was a Senior Research Analyst, Managing Director at Steifel Nicolaus and […]
Nitin Saigal, CFA
Nitin Saigal is a portfolio analyst for Seligman Investments at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. In this role Nitin focuses on the internet and media industries. Prior to joining the group in 2015, he was an associate in the technology investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he worked on transactions for firms including […]
Shekhar Pramanick, Ph.D.
Shekhar Pramanick is a portfolio analyst for Seligman Investments at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Shekhar joined one of the Columbia Threadneedle Investments firms in 2012. Previously, he was a principal at Elemental Capital Partners, focusing on global semiconductor devices, memory, capital equipment and disk drives. Prior to that, Shekhar was a semiconductor analyst at Seasons Capital […]
Jeetil Patel
Jeetil Patel is a senior analyst for Seligman Investments at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. In this role, Jeetil focuses on the internet, entertainment software and media industries. Prior to joining the group in 2012, he was a senior internet analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities, where he spent more than 13 years covering the technology and internet […]