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 he was responsible for institutional equity hedge fund sales as well as a director in equity institutional sales at Morgan Stanley.

He has been a member of the investment industry since 1997. Van received a B.A. in environmental science from Hampshire College and holds his FINRA Series 7, and 63 registrations.