6.4M US employer firms. Only the public ones file.
Build a CEO Email List the Day You Write, Not the Day It Was Scraped.
Nothing in this market produces an inbound lead, so the send is the signal. Build a CEO email list on the day you write, and work it from the small end: across 7.5 million cold emails sent in 2025, Belkins measured 0.72% replies at firms of 10 staff or fewer against 0.22% at 10,000-plus.
Marisol Reyes
Owner & CEO · Trellis Landscape Co.
Lena Tanaka
CEO · Tarnwell Freight Lines
Desmond Clarke
Founder & CEO · Quarry Hill Software
Abiola Okonkwo
CEO · Bramfield Electrical Contractors
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Market snapshot
A CEO leaves. Or the company does. Only public companies must say so.
No regulator registers a chief executive and no registry lists one. A CEO email list is not a lookup. You build it the day you need it.
6,395,635
US employer firms, one top decision-maker each
No public file names the person in the chair.
US Census Bureau, SUSB 2022
309,400
jobs BLS codes as chief executive
The only official count, and it is 20x short.
BLS Employment Projections via O*NET
34.7%
of private-sector establishments born in 2013 still traded in 2023
A company can vanish under a contact, unannounced.
BLS Business Employment Dynamics
2,032
US CEOs left their posts in 2025
Only 446 of those exits had to be filed with the SEC.
Challenger, Gray & Christmas
What you get
A CEO email list with 30+ fields behind every name
You cannot sort a list on size unless the file carries it. Every reveal returns headcount and revenue beside the direct email and phone, checked across 9 providers in real time.
| Name | Title | Company | Industry | Headcount | Revenue | Funding | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Marisol Reyes | Owner & CEO | Trellis Landscape Co. | Landscaping Services | 9 | $1.6M | Owner-operated | m•••@•••.com | |
 Gordon Halverson | CEO | Halverson Cabinetry | Millwork | 11 | $2.4M | Family-owned | g•••@•••.com | |
 Priya Nadar | Owner | Alderwick Dental Group | Dental Practice | 16 | $3.1M | Owner-operated | p•••@•••.com | |
 Elias Ferris | President | Ferris Bros. Plumbing | Trade Contracting | 14 | $2.9M | Family-owned | e•••@•••.com | |
 Sofia Barros | Founder & CEO | Sandbar Coffee Roasters | Food & Beverage | 7 | $1.2M | Bootstrapped | s•••@•••.com |
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No trigger. No queue. So the only choice left is who you write first.
A CEO mailing list runs from a solo owner to a 1,200-person carrier. The plays below run in headcount order, because that is the order the reply rate follows.
CEOs and owners at US companies with 1 to 19 employees
Filters used
5,720,093 of 6,395,635 US employer firms run on fewer than 20 people. The CEO is the entire buying committee.
Marisol Reyes
Owner & CEO · Trellis Landscape Co.
Gordon Halverson
CEO · Halverson Cabinetry
Priya Nadar
Owner · Alderwick Dental Group
Elias Ferris
President · Ferris Bros. Plumbing
Sofia Barros
Founder & CEO · Sandbar Coffee Roasters
The honest pitch
Most CEO email lists are a snapshot of a market that never announces a change.
Most B2B records sit behind a public clock: a licence expires, a permit lapses, and the file tells on itself. A CEO record has no clock. Only public companies must announce a change, and 2,032 US CEOs left their posts in 2025 with just 446 of those exits at companies obliged to file an 8-K. A bought file decays in silence, and its export date is the last day it was right.
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Writing into silence
This market has no calendar. So you set the date yourself
Most outbound waits for something to happen: a permit, a licence renewal, a funding round. The rep writes into a change that already happened. CEOs generate none of that.
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↓ three things that actually move the needle
- 01
With no trigger to time, order is the only lever
Belkins analysed 7.5 million cold emails sent in 2025. Founders and owners replied 0.57% of the time, C-level 0.42%, VPs 0.32%. With nothing to react to, the running order is the one lever you hold.
- 02
57% of C-level and VP buyers prefer the phone
RAIN Group's 2018 benchmark surveyed 488 B2B buyers. Phone preference rises with seniority: 57% among C-level and VP buyers, 51% among directors, 47% among managers. Write the email to book the call.
- 03
37 meetings a week. Your email lands in the gap
Porter and Nohria tracked 27 large-company CEOs for 13 weeks each and published it in 2018. Those CEOs averaged 37 meetings a week and spent 72% of working time inside them. Write for the gap between two meetings: one screen, one claim, one ask.
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