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CEO email list: 49,666 US CEOs, free to download

49,666 U.S. CEOs in Datacircle's free 10M+ U.S. dataset have an email or a mobile phone: 32,671 with an email, 41,176 with a mobile, 24,181 with both. They work at companies of 11 to 500 employees, by the current job title on their LinkedIn profile, in our October 2026 release.

One download, free with a work email; the list is one query on it. Below, the CEOs counted by state, industry and company size, with their titles as written. People are counted here, never named.

Download the CEO email list

Sign up with your work email: the 10M+ U.S. dataset is on your dashboard, one zip of two Parquet files. Unzip it into a folder named us_10m, then run this in Python (pip install duckdb). It writes the 49,666 CEOs with an email or a mobile to a CSV, each with their company, its website, industry and size, and their LinkedIn URL:

import duckdb

duckdb.sql(r"""
  copy (
    select p.FULL_NAME, p.CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, c.NAME as COMPANY, c.URL as WEBSITE, c.LINKEDIN_INDUSTRY as INDUSTRY,
           c.EMPLOYEE_COUNT_RANGE as EMPLOYEES, p.EMAIL, p.MOBILE_PHONE, p.CITY, p.STATE_CODE, p.LINKEDIN_URL
    from 'us_10m/us_smb_mid_market_persons.parquet' p
    join 'us_10m/us_smb_mid_market_companies.parquet' c on c.LINKEDIN_ID = p.CURRENT_JOB_COMPANY_LINKEDIN_ID
    where regexp_matches(p.CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, '\b(ceo|chief executive officer)\b', 'i')
      and not regexp_matches(p.CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, '\bassistant\b.*\b(to|for)\b|\bexecutive assistant\b', 'i')
      and (p.EMAIL is not null or p.MOBILE_PHONE is not null)
  ) to 'us_ceo.csv'
""")

The pattern takes a title as written on LinkedIn, in any letter case, and the second one leaves out the titles it shouldn't take. To cut it by state, add and p.STATE_CODE = 'CA'; by size, and c.EMPLOYEE_COUNT_RANGE = '11-50'. Every column of the file and its fill rate: the free US B2B leads dataset.

Their titles, as written on LinkedIn

The titles the most CEOs of the list hold, word for word. Titles held by fewer than 10 people aren't shown.

The most common titles of the CEOs with an email or a mobile, October 2026
TitlePeople
Chief Executive Officer14,694
CEO11,602
President & CEO2,403
President CEO2,323
Founder & CEO1,726
President and CEO1,467
Founder and CEO960
Founder CEO729
Co-founder & CEO659
CEO President418

US CEOs by state

By the state on their LinkedIn profile. California holds 17.5% of them, Texas 9.0%.

US CEOs with an email or a mobile by state, October 2026
StateWith an email or a mobileShare
California8,69517.5%
Texas4,4779.0%
Florida4,3998.9%
New York4,1218.3%
Illinois1,6713.4%
Georgia1,6303.3%
Pennsylvania1,4162.9%
Ohio1,4122.8%
North Carolina1,2792.6%
Michigan1,2612.5%
Massachusetts1,2432.5%
New Jersey1,2202.5%
Colorado1,2052.4%
Virginia1,2052.4%
Arizona1,0542.1%
Washington1,0462.1%
Minnesota9521.9%
Tennessee8551.7%
Maryland8291.7%
Utah7501.5%
Indiana6461.3%
Wisconsin6401.3%
Missouri6241.3%
Oregon6081.2%
District of Columbia5781.2%
South Carolina5101.0%
Connecticut4881.0%
Nevada4861.0%
Alabama4721.0%
Oklahoma3890.8%
Kansas3820.8%
Louisiana3660.7%
Kentucky3400.7%
Iowa3370.7%
Nebraska2270.5%
Arkansas2120.4%
Idaho1990.4%
New Hampshire1840.4%
New Mexico1460.3%
Maine1440.3%
Mississippi1230.2%
Montana1190.2%
Hawaii1110.2%
Delaware1050.2%
Rhode Island980.2%
South Dakota850.2%
Wyoming750.2%
North Dakota700.1%
Vermont700.1%
West Virginia630.1%
Alaska490.1%

US CEOs by industry

By their company's industry on LinkedIn, the 10 largest. Construction comes first, with 5.9% of them.

US CEOs with an email or a mobile by their company's industry, October 2026
IndustryWith an email or a mobile
Construction2,945
Software Development2,741
Financial Services2,222
IT Services and IT Consulting2,153
Hospitals and Health Care1,821
Real Estate1,797
Advertising Services1,722
Business Consulting and Services1,222
Technology, Information and Internet1,007
Insurance887

US CEOs by company size

By the employee range on their company's LinkedIn page. The free file holds companies of 11 to 500 employees. The 50M+ dataset holds every size: 223,205 CEOs, 76,211 with an email and 109,646 with a mobile. It unlocks once 3 people you invited sign up.

US CEOs with an email or a mobile by company size, October 2026
EmployeesWith an email or a mobileShare
11-5030,50061.4%
51-20014,46029.1%
201-5004,7069.5%

How recent the emails are

Each email in the file comes with EMAIL_VALIDATED_AT, the date it was last verified: 32,470 of the 32,671 emails of these CEOs (99.4%) were last verified on or after August 1, 2026. A person's job as it is today, their title and company, is the LinkedIn profile behind their URL: the LinkedIn profile API, $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data.

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Questions

How many CEOs are in Datacircle's free file?

84,671 people in the free 10M+ US dataset (October 2026) have a current job title of CEO, by the title on their LinkedIn profile. 49,666 of them have an email or a mobile phone: 32,671 an email, 41,176 a mobile, 24,181 both.

Can I download a CEO email list for free?

Yes. Sign up at datacircle.dev with your work email and download the free 10M+ US dataset from your dashboard: one zip with the people and the companies they work at. The CEOs are one query on it, printed on this page, which writes them to a CSV with their company, email, mobile phone and LinkedIn URL.

Which state has the most CEOs?

California, with 8,695 of the 49,666 who have an email or a mobile (17.5%), then Texas (4,477) and Florida (4,399). The state is the one on their LinkedIn profile.

How recent are the emails?

Each email comes with EMAIL_VALIDATED_AT, the date it was last verified. 32,470 of the 32,671 emails of these CEOs (99.4%) were last verified on or after August 1, 2026.

Does it cover companies of every size?

The free file holds people at companies of 11 to 500 employees. Every size is in the 50M+ US dataset: 223,205 CEOs, 130,644 with an email or a mobile. It unlocks once 3 people you invited sign up.

Sign up at datacircle.dev with your work email: a $5 credit, that's 4,000 LinkedIn profiles at $1.25 per 1,000. Free: 10M+ U.S. B2B leads, as a flat file. Download it at datacircle.dev.

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