A simple trick to find email ids of senior employees of a company, often used for sales/research purposes.
For e.g. we are trying to find out the email id of CEO of a company. First we need the name of the CEO. Most of the times names of senior employees can easily be found in the About Us>Management Team page of the company’s website, sometimes also on the Contact Us page. If name is not found on the company’s website then go to google.com and put in “CEO Company’s name” in the search box.
If that doesn’t work can put in “CEO company’s name linkedin” in the Google search box you should get the linkedin profiles having name, title and where the person is currently working. Check for the required company and find the CEO’s name.
Now the tough part, how to find the email id of the CEO? Go back to google.com and type in the CEO name “@companywebsite.com” in the search box for eg John Smith “@something.com”. Do Ctrl+F and search for @companywebsite.com within the search results and look for relevant email id of the CEO.
If the above step doesn’t get the CEO’s email id then look at the other email ids for the same company and try to understand the structure of the email id for eg it can be like firstname.lastname@companywebsite.com or firtsnameinitial.lastname@companywebsite.com etc. Once you have the email id structure CEO’s email id can be easily derived.
Another way to find the structure of the email id is to check the whois records for that domain using this site, you can also download a small tool here for checking whois records.
PRnewswire.com, Businesswire.com, MarketWatch.com and Yahoo Finance can also be used to find the email id structures by searching for the company’s press releases and locating the contacts at the bottom of the news release.
The process described above should work in majority of cases (CEO’s at Fortune 1000 or Fortune 500 companies can be found using this trick). But sometimes you may have to play around with the structure of email ids by testing different versions before you get the right one.