I have an investment in AVXL, too. On their board, he gets more criticism than LP gets here. He's not a good speaker because of a very heavy accent, English is not his primary language. I do believe that the company will succeed, but because of their science, not because of him.
Companies on major exchanges and selling for several dollars are simply invited to many conferences, it's rare for a CEO of a penny stock to get an invite to anything of consequence until they do something that rates banner headlines. At that time, they may no longer be a penny stock.
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