Craig Scharton

But the fact that it's human health innovation just gives it that extra push.

I'm not just helping someone with a hair product, you know, or something that maybe doesn't have quite the potential for outcomes as these companies do.

No, it's a dream project to be, you know, like feeling like this is my...

My last lap on the career path.

This is where I'm happy and want to finish up.

Yeah, so within Charlotte, which you can see Charlotte behind me, that's not a screen saver or fake background.

That's how close we are to uptown Charlotte.

There's a project called The Pearl, which is a health innovation district.

So we have a lot of really strong partners within this new development, which just opened this summer.

It has Wake Forest School of Medicine, a surgical training facility called IRCAD, which is arguably the best or at least one of the best in the world.

It will bring 10,000 surgeons a year to Charlotte for training.

Siemens Health and Ears, and a lot of other medical device-related partnerships, along with the offices for Atrium Advocate Health, all in this one place with people collaborating and working together.

Within the larger context, I work for Wexford Science and Technology, and we're a developer that focuses exclusively on innovation districts.

So this is one of our projects from around the country.

And within those, we have Connect Labs, which is a space dedicated to people that are doing innovation.

So it can be, we have wet and dry labs for innovation.

Life science research, people doing more engineering kind of work with medical device.

We have digital health companies, space for economic development partners and investors who can help our companies grow.

And, you know, it's just that that.

feeling of energy when you get these kind of people within a floor or a space and you start to see all these incredible outcomes happening right in front of your eyes.