Executive leadership and career coaching for CEOs, founders, and next-generation family business leaders. Dr. Benjamin Ritter, EdD, ICF PCC. Live for Yourself Consulting. Austin, TX.
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The Executive hosted by Dr. Benjamin Ritter

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The Executive Podcast brings you inside real conversations with CEOs, founders, and next-gen leaders navigating the pressure, decisions, and responsibility that come with leading at the top.

Hosted by Dr. Benjamin Ritter — executive coach and author of Becoming Fearless — this show is for leaders who don’t need more frameworks, but a clearer way to think, decide, and lead when the stakes are real.

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The Best Idea Wins with Jason Scharf

Jason Scharf is an experienced strategy executive and active angel investor in the life science and digital health sectors. For the past 15 years, he has built and led teams in strategic planning, market intelligence, and innovation. Today he is the Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships for Kean Health a direct to consumer at home genomic and microbiome testing company.

Connect with Jason on LinkedIn and make sure to check out Kean Health.

In this conversation, Jason and I discuss the importance of being data driven, finding and setting your north star, and how the best idea wins.

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Prior to his role at Kean, he has worked across the healthcare sector at biopharma, genomics, and medtech companies including Illumina, Becton Dickinson, and Amgen. In addition to his roles within the corporate environment, Jason has served as a co-fund manager of the San Diego Angel Conference, an investor with Tech Coast Angels, and a mentor with the NexCubed Digital Health Accelerator. He has invested in ~40 emerging companies from Seed stage to Series B focusing on the convergence of technology and biology. He is also the creator and co-host of the Austin Next Podcast. An exploration of Austin’s transformation into the next great innovation powerhouse, what it takes to accelerate the growth of an ecosystem, and what comes next. Jason Scharf earned his BA from University of California, San Diego and his MBA from the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego.

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