How much stock or voting power do I need to have to schedule a?
Theres no threshold, many people schedule meetings with no holdings, but in a hostile situation the executives might refuse to meet with even a very large holder. And even the largest institutional holders usually look to their sell-side analysts to arrange private meeting for them. The main qualification is not how much stock you own in the company, but how much business you do with the investment bank, and how good the investment banks relations are with the company. Meeting privately as an investor raises legal issues. The company may want to have compliance lawyers present, and will ensure the executives are well trained in Fair Disclosure rules. For an investor to speak to lower-level executives can be very difficult for that reason. Even if you scheduled a private meeting, the executives could not give you any material non-public information.