Ashish Dhawan is an experienced finance leader currently serving as Vice President and Head of FP&A at Avidity Biosciences, Inc. since September 2023. Prior roles include Senior Director of Operations FP&A at Illumina, where responsibilities encompassed managing key financial metrics across multiple sites, and Director of Finance at Thermo Fisher Scientific, overseeing significant eBusiness revenues. Ashish also held the position of Director of Operations Strategy and Financial Analysis at Amgen, focusing on analytics to drive business transformation. Earlier experiences include roles at Qualcomm and Epic Systems, along with a foundational engineering position at Genus Electronics Limited. Ashish holds an MBA in Finance from Duke University and advanced degrees in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University.