LSU Lineman Lewis Neal Owns an Investment Firm, Day-Trades On The Foreign Exchange, and Just Bought A Barber Shop Offering Free Cuts To Police Officers

The Advocate – Lewis Neal isn’t your ordinary football player. The 6-foot-2, 270-pound LSU defensive lineman owns an investment firm, news that leaked over the spring. That’s not the half of it.

Neal and a friend have created a smartphone app geared for students. They’re planning to launch it soon. He hopes later in life to purchase a real-estate firm, too.

Neal earned enough money from years of day-trading on the Foreign Exchange market that, earlier this month, he bought into a business. He’s now co-owner of Hair Factory, a salon at the corner of Nicholson and Lee Drive.

Football player. College student. Investment-firm owner. Financial trader. Hair salon owner.

“Entrepreneur,” a smiling Neal said Wednesday from inside Hair Factory.

Add community servant to the list of Neal’s titles. He and Joan Campbell, his co-owner at the shop, opened Hair Factory to free haircuts for all military and first responders, including law enforcement officers and firefighters. Their families were welcome, too.

This is Neal and Campbell’s way of honoring the three officers gunned down on July 17 near the B-Quik on Airline Highway.

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Your first question, answered:

Your second question – no, I’m not sure if this kid is real life. A senior who led one of the best teams in college football with 8 sacks last year while playing DE, DT and OL. Who set the LSU weight room record with a 391 pound clean.

It would appear that Lewis Neal is just an SEC star in his free time?

Because the dude is currently registering his own investment firm and hiring traders to fulfill his dream of owning a “billion dollar firm,” has spent the last 3 years day trading on Forex, making enough money that he just bought into a business, is currently developing a smartphone app for students, and also wants to buy a real-estate firm.

Oh and that business he bought? It’s a barbershop, and their first move was to offer free haircuts to all police, military, first responders, AND their families to honor the officers killed on July 17th.

“I just wanted to do something positive for the community, just give back and show our appreciation,” Neal said. “We want to have some positive things going around. There’s so much negativity going around. You need some positive things going viral.”

You know, just your typical college athlete.