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Running an investor roadshow: six people, four buildings, no excuses
Roadshow days fail on the gaps between meetings, not the meetings. How a printed run-sheet and a lead chauffeur change the arithmetic.
An investor roadshow is a schedule with no slack in it. Four or five meetings across Toronto in a day, each with people whose time is expensive, and a series of transitions where fifteen minutes of drift compounds into a missed meeting by mid-afternoon.
The run-sheet
Every car on a roadshow gets a printed schedule: addresses, specific doors, contact names, timings and the order of movements. Not a route in an app — a document, because a chauffeur juggling a phone at a kerb is a chauffeur not watching for your principal coming out of a building.
A lead chauffeur
On multi-car days one chauffeur coordinates. They confirm when each car is in position, manage the order of departures, and are the single number your assistant calls. That is materially better than four separate drivers each with a partial picture.
Buffer, not optimism
We schedule legs on what the road actually does at that hour, not the best case. Toronto midday between the financial district and midtown is not the same journey as at 10am. A day built on optimistic timings is a day that fails at meeting three.
The as-directed alternative
For some days the better answer is not a series of transfers at all but hourly as-directed hire — the car stays with the group, coats and materials stay in the vehicle, and a meeting that runs long does not trigger a re-booking. We compared the two models in hourly versus point to point.
Beyond Toronto
Roadshows frequently continue to Ottawa or Montreal. Those legs are quoted flat with the driving hours managed properly — see city-to-city. Full service detail on roadshows and executive convoys.
