Planning
OneStreamHyperionSAP BWScenario modelingDCF / IRR / NPV
Who you'll work with
Your strategic finance partner
Nick Thakkar is the founder of Long Range Advisory, a strategic finance executive with more than 15 years across AbbVie, Neurocrine Biosciences and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, specialising in long-range planning, valuation modeling and capital allocation for life sciences companies.
Nick founded Long Range Advisory (LRA) to provide growing biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and healthcare organizations with access to executive-level financial strategy typically reserved for large enterprises and investment banks.
With more than 15 years of experience across Fortune 500 and high-growth life sciences organizations, he partners with executive leadership to evaluate strategic investments, optimize capital allocation, and build financial models that support confident long-term decision-making.
His expertise spans long-range planning, valuation modeling, forecasting, and investment analysis, helping organizations maximize enterprise value through data-driven financial strategy.
Why I started Long Range Advisory
Every company I worked for made the same decision over and over: which programs get funded, which get delayed, and which get partnered out. The teams that got it right had one thing in common — a long-range plan their leadership actually believed in. Most emerging biotechs cannot justify a full corporate FP&A function to build one. Long Range Advisory exists to close that gap.
How I work
Engagements start with the decision, not the spreadsheet. I sit with the leadership team, agree the assumptions in writing, then build a model your team can open, read and maintain after I leave. No black boxes, and no dependency on me to run it.
Professional journey
15+ years of finance leadership across Fortune 500 & high-growth companies
- 2010
AbbVie
Corporate Finance
Helped establish FP&A capabilities for a $500M business unit, creating the budgeting processes, reporting structures and financial ownership behind them. Supported SEC reporting — 10-Q, 10-K, 8-K and quarterly earnings releases.
- 2016
Razorfish
Sr. Financial Analyst
Implemented an AI-driven CRM tool for revenue and profitability forecasting, and redesigned the reporting and analysis processes behind margin, cost and client profitability.
- 2017
Addus HomeCare
Finance Manager
Supported an ERP implementation and standardised global reporting processes, improving data consistency and operational visibility across the business.
- 2018
AbbVie
Finance Lead
Built the FP&A function from the ground up for a $500M business unit, then led annual budgeting, long-range planning and quarterly forecasting across a $750M+ portfolio. Prepared public-company reporting and automated the recurring packages behind it.
- 2020
Neurocrine Biosciences
Finance Manager
Led enterprise financial planning — annual budgeting, long-range planning and latest estimates for executive leadership. Built an award-winning long-range planning model incorporating valuation, ROI, DCF, IRR and NPV analysis.
- 2024
Regeneron
Finance Manager
Leads enterprise FP&A across SG&A, R&D and Corporate functions, covering more than $1B in operating expense. Provides scenario modeling and strategic analysis to the C-suite and Board on more than $1B in capital allocation decisions.
- Today
Long Range Advisory
Founder
Founded Long Range Advisory to give growing biotech and pharmaceutical organizations the executive-level planning, valuation and capital allocation work that normally sits inside a full corporate FP&A function.
How I work with people
The part a model cannot do
Executive communication
Presenting financial insight in a concise, decision-oriented format for senior leaders and board audiences.
Stakeholder management
Building trust and alignment across Finance, Operations, R&D, Commercial, HR and IT.
Business partnering
Balancing financial discipline with the strategic and operational view the business actually runs on.
Change management
Supporting adoption of new planning processes, reporting tools and operating rhythms.
Systems & tooling
The planning stack I can walk into
Which environment a finance leader already knows decides how much of the first month is spent learning the system instead of the business.
Analytics
Power BITableauExcel (VBA, data modeling)KPI dashboards
ERP & automation
SAPWorkdayNetSuiteSalesforce CRMPythonSQL
Governance
Board & advisors
Long Range Advisory draws on a small group of senior finance and operations leaders who advise on strategy, governance, and client work.
Arslaan Saleem
Executive Director, Commercial FP&A
BridgeBio
Commercial finance leader with 14+ years across biotech and Fortune 100 environments. At BridgeBio he owns Commercial FP&A and P&L across launched and pipeline assets, including financial leadership for the launch of Attruby. He previously led commercial FP&A for Reata’s first U.S. launch, Skyclarys, and spent nine years at AbbVie, where he managed the U.S. Rheumatology P&L supporting roughly $7B in net sales across Humira and Rinvoq.
Hamad EjazCPA
Controller
Fennec Pharmaceuticals
Controller at Fennec Pharmaceuticals and a Certified Public Accountant. He spent four years at SpringWorks Therapeutics as Director of External Reporting and Technical Accounting, and before that held technical accounting and commercial alliance accounting roles at AbbVie. His work centres on external reporting, technical accounting positions, and the treatment of business acquisitions and licensing agreements.