Anavex Life Sciences Corp (AVXL)

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Nell Rebowe: The fashion model is a neuroscientist

She asked Rebowe if she were a model. “Literally, as soon as we landed, she asked me to walk for her,” she recalls. “I showed her my walk, she hired me on the spot, and then I rushed back to Tulane to take an Organic Chemistry exam.”

She has been juggling the science and fashion world ever since.

She sees her role in the science world in some ways as “my new method of performance.

“You can’t be scared,” she says. Her science work often requires her in certain situations to be bold, an inherited trait that comes with her signature red hair.

“At these big conferences, you just have to go up to these CEOs. I have no fear.”

Bold is mine and seems a useful trait along with an understanding of neuroscience and organic chemistry in making inroads for Anavex for management to follow up on. I bet Ms Rebowe is much better at that than some wooden PhD or MBA type.

I fail to follow the argument that some people seem to feel Ms Rebowe is a red flag for Anavex.