Comment by DangitBobby

Your motivations are clear to you, the person drafting the email. If they were clear to the CEO, he likely would not have responded the way he did. Look, I understand that you reached out with the best of intentions and that my criticism is not welcome, mainly because of that. What you are doing is important. I just think if you added a bit more info to your initial email about what you want, things could have gone differently.