LinkedIn Decision Maker Finder

🚀 LinkedIn Decision Maker Finder: CEOs, Founders and VPs at Any Company

Give the LinkedIn Decision Maker Finder a list of companies and get back the CEOs, CTOs, founders, VPs and directors who work there, each with their name, job title, LinkedIn profile URL and a confidence rating. It is a LinkedIn people search by company, built for B2B lead generation, sales prospecting and account research. No LinkedIn login or cookies are needed.

🎯 Use Cases: B2B Lead Generation and LinkedIn Prospecting

• B2B and LinkedIn lead generation: turn a list of target accounts into named decision makers with LinkedIn profile URLs, ready for your CRM or outreach tool.
• LinkedIn prospecting by company: find the CEO, CTO or Head of Sales at each company on your list, without searching LinkedIn by hand one account at a time.
• Who is the CEO of a company?: answer it for hundreds of companies in one run, with the matching LinkedIn profile for each.
• Account-based sales prospecting: map the leadership team of each target account (a lightweight org chart of its executives) before your SDRs reach out.
• Find the hiring manager: search a company for "Head of Engineering" or "VP Marketing" to see who owns the role you are applying for or selling into.
• Enrich company lists from other sources: add decision makers to companies you found on Clutch, BBB or a career page.

✨ Features

• Company names, LinkedIn URLs, slugs or websites: mix them in one list. A website (synergylabs.co) is the most precise: it finds the one LinkedIn company page that lists that website, so same-name companies elsewhere are left out.
• Search by job title: give your own titles (CEO, CTO, VP Sales, Head of Growth) or leave them empty to use 18 built-in senior titles.
• Filter by location: return only people based in a city, region or country, which tells apart companies that share a name.
• Current employees only: people whose current employer is a different company (they only list your target in their history) are dropped, and profiles that are really companies are skipped.
• Confidence rating: every person is rated high, medium or low based on whether the title matches one you asked for and whether the profile names the target company.
• Company LinkedIn page resolved: each row carries the company's LinkedIn URL when it can be found.
• No duplicates: a person is saved once per company, and a company listed twice (for example as "Stripe" and as its LinkedIn URL) is searched and billed once.
• Fair billing: you pay per decision maker found. Companies with no matches cost nothing, and the run stops cleanly at your maximum cost per run.
• Partial results are kept: results are saved in batches of 20 companies, so a long run that reaches its timeout still delivers what it found.

🛠️ How It Works: LinkedIn Search by Company

1. Enter your companies: names, LinkedIn company URLs or websites, one per line.
2. Pick job titles and a limit: choose the roles you want and how many people per company (1 to 50, default 5). Add a location if a company name is common.
3. Run it and download the decision makers as JSON, CSV or Excel, or pull them through the Apify API.

The Actor uses only publicly indexed information about LinkedIn profiles. It never logs in to LinkedIn and never opens profile pages as a member.

⚙️ Input

Field	What it does
Companies (required)	Company names, LinkedIn company URLs, LinkedIn company slugs or company websites. A website is the most precise.
Target Titles	Job titles to search for. Empty = 18 common C-level, VP, director and founder titles (see below).
Max Persons per Company	How many decision makers to return per company, 1 to 50. Default 5.
Country	Country domain for search locality, such as com, co.uk or de. Default com.
Location	Optional. Only people based here, as LinkedIn writes it: United States, Texas, Chicago. People with no location on their profile are left out too.

{
    "companies": ["Apify", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/qdrant", "synergylabs.co"],
    "titles": ["CEO", "CTO", "Founder", "VP Sales"],
    "maxPersonsPerCompany": 5,
    "country": "com",
    "location": "United States"
}

When Target Titles is empty, the Actor searches for: CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CIO, CISO, VP, Vice President, Director, Head of, Founder, Co-Founder, Managing Director, General Manager, Partner, President, Owner. It also runs one broader search per company, so companies whose leaders use other titles still return people.

A country or state is a safer Location than a city: founders often live away from the office address listed in directories.

💰 Pricing

Pay only for the decision makers you get. No monthly rental.

Event	Price	What you get
Result	$0.025 per decision maker ($25 per 1,000)	One person at one company, with all fields below.
Actor start	$0.00005 per run	Charged once when the run starts.
Decision maker (MCP)	$0.025 per decision maker	Only when an AI agent calls the Actor's own MCP server. Same price as a result.
Company lookup (MCP)	$0.01 per company	Only when an AI agent resolves one company to its LinkedIn page through the MCP server.

Examples: 10 companies × 5 people = 50 decision makers = $1.25 · 200 companies × 3 people = up to 600 decision makers = up to $15.00. A company with no matching profiles adds nothing. Set Maximum cost per run in Run options to cap any run.

📊 Sample Output Data

{
    "companyInput": "Apify",
    "companyName": "Apify",
    "companyLinkedInUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/apify",
    "companyIndustry": null,
    "companySize": null,
    "companyHeadquarters": null,
    "companySpecialties": null,
    "personName": "Jan Čurn",
    "personTitle": "CEO",
    "personProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancurn",
    "personLocation": "San Francisco Bay Area",
    "personEducation": null,
    "personConnections": null,
    "personCurrentCompany": "Apify | Let's put the web to work",
    "personAboutSnippet": null,
    "confidence": "high",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-18T06:06:42.114Z"
}

companyInput echoes the entry you gave, so you can join results back to your list. personCurrentCompany is the company as it appears in the person's profile heading, sometimes followed by the company's tagline. confidence is high when the title matches one you asked for and nothing contradicts the company, medium when the role is unconfirmed, and low when the profile names a different current company and no title matches.

Which fields are filled:

Field	Filled
companyInput, companyName, personName, personProfileUrl, confidence, scrapedAt	Always
companyLinkedInUrl	When the company's LinkedIn page can be found
personTitle	When the profile shows a job title; never a company name or a location
personCurrentCompany, personLocation	When the public profile summary includes them
companyIndustry, companySize, companyHeadquarters, companySpecialties, personEducation, personConnections, personAboutSnippet	Always null. Kept so existing integrations do not break.

The Actor does not return email addresses or phone numbers. Pass personProfileUrl to an enrichment tool if you need contact details.

🔁 Schedule and Integrate

For an ongoing prospect list, run it once a month (or weekly for fast-moving startups) with the same companies: leadership changes show up as new names and profile URLs between runs. Set it up in Apify Schedules. Send the results to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, n8n or a webhook with Apify integrations, so new decision makers land in your CRM or sales sheet automatically.

🤖 Use with AI Agents (MCP)

This Actor works as a tool in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other MCP clients through the Apify MCP server (https://mcp.apify.com). It also runs as its own MCP server in Standby mode with two tools: find_decision_makers (up to 3 companies and 10 people per company per call) and resolve_company_linkedin (one company to its LinkedIn page). An agent can call it with:

{ "companies": ["Apify"], "titles": ["CEO", "CTO"], "maxPersonsPerCompany": 3 }

❓ FAQ

Does LinkedIn have an official API for finding people? Not an open one. LinkedIn's APIs (Sign In with LinkedIn, the Marketing APIs and the Sales Navigator partner program) are limited to approved partners, and none offers an open people search by company and job title. This Actor needs no API key, no approval and no LinkedIn account, and returns decision makers from publicly indexed profile information.

Do I need a LinkedIn account or cookies? No. The Actor never logs in to LinkedIn and asks for no cookies or session, so your own LinkedIn account is never at risk.

How do I find out who is the CEO of a company? Add the company (its website is the most precise) and set Target Titles to CEO, Founder and Co-Founder. The person with confidence: "high" and a matching personTitle is your answer. For hundreds of companies, put them all in one run.

How is this different from a LinkedIn people search? A LinkedIn people search starts from a title and a location and returns anyone who matches. This Actor starts from specific companies and returns their decision makers, capped per company, with each company's LinkedIn page resolved. For broad lists by title and location, use the LinkedIn People Search Scraper below.

Why is a title, location or company empty? These come from the public summary of each profile, which does not always show them. The Actor leaves a field null rather than fill it with a guess.

Why did a company return few or no people? Only profiles that are publicly indexed and name the company can be found. Small companies, very common names and private profiles return fewer people. Try the company's website instead of its name, broader titles, or a Location. Companies with no matches are not charged.

Is it legal to collect decision maker data, and how should I use it? The Actor returns business information people publish about their own roles: name, job title, employer and public profile URL. It collects no emails, phone numbers or sensitive personal data. If you process data about people in the EU or UK, GDPR applies: have a legal basis such as legitimate interest for B2B outreach, keep only what you need, and honour opt-out and deletion requests.

🔗 Related Scrapers

• LinkedIn People Search Scraper: broad lists of people by job title, company and location, when you do not start from a company list.
• LinkedIn Company Scraper: headcount, industry and specialties for the companyLinkedInUrl values you get here.
• LinkedIn Company Jobs Scraper: every open role at the same companies, a buying signal to time your outreach.
• BBB Advanced Scraper: local business leads with phones and categories, to feed into this Actor as a company list.
• Clutch.co Listings Scraper: agencies and service providers by category, then find their founders here.