Twelve must-meet accounts, eighteen individuals. That is almost exactly a two-day meeting capacity, so this list is the meeting plan rather than a funnel.
All on Oct 21, in three consecutive sessions. Email those six before the event and the session becomes the meeting point rather than a cold approach. The 10:00 Operating Partner Playbook alone holds three of them.
Connection requests to all 18 on LinkedIn, with a note
Email the six speakers first. They have the most inbound and the least time
Email the remaining twelve
Follow up anyone who opened but did not reply. One line only
Confirm whatever is booked. Print the card deck
Meetings. Capture each conversation the same day
Follow up inside 72 hours of each conversation
Each email reuses the opener already researched for that person, wrapped in three sentences. Sent from Sachin's own mailbox, no tracking pixels, one link at most.
Subject: your Operating Partner Playbook session
I see you're on the Operating Partner
Playbook panel on Tuesday morning. I'll be in the room.
With three brands added inside about eighteen months, how are you
running a dozen-plus brands for customers on four continents: separate, or coming together? That's most of what I work on, and I'd
be interested in how you've approached it.
Happy to grab twenty minutes after your session if you have them.
Subject: the carve-out
Between the merger and the take-private, it's been a big two
years.
The question I'd most like to ask: is the carve-out standing up its own systems, or staying on the parent's for a
while? Standing up a clean stack from a carve-out is a different problem from merging two existing ones, and we spend our time in
both.
I'm at M&A East both days. Worth twenty minutes?
Subject: the two-brand combination
I'll be at your Operating Partner Playbook session on
Tuesday.
With one portfolio company absorbing another, how early do you push to get the commercial systems integrated? That
sequencing decision is the one I see made differently by every operating partner, and I'd like to hear your
version.
Around both days if you have twenty minutes.
I'm at M&A East next week. Most of my work is with groups that grew by acquisition and are deciding what the acquired companies should run on, which looks close to your world. Happy to connect either way.
A packaging company appears twice with opposite reads: once as a renamed business with a new CEO and separate brand sites, once as sold with little left to sell into. The CEO is on the must-meet list, so this needs settling first.
Surnames were partially masked in the source data and no profile URLs were returned. Confirm every primary on LinkedIn before sending.
Eighteen pre-event emails plus two days of conversations produces more follow-up than one person can carry while travelling. Worth deciding now rather than on the 22nd.