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 Management. He received a B.S. in electrical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, an M.S. in physics from the University of Oregon and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from North Carolina State University.