Dimon, Fraser and Moynihan will attend private Trump CEO meeting — some others will skip

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US President Donald Trump gestures as CEO of Bank of America Brian Moynihan (L) speaks during a meeting with banking leaders to discuss how the financial services industry can meet the needs of customers affected by COVID-19 at the White House in Washington, DC on March 11, 2020. Former President Donald Trump will address some of the world's most powerful corporate leaders on Thursday, albeit with some notable absences. In addition to Trump, President Joe Biden's chief of staff Jeff Zients will speak to the CEOs in Biden's place because the president is in Italy at the G7 meeting. A spokeswoman for the Business Roundtable said it expects "roughly" 100 of the over 200 chief executives who belong to the exclusive forum to attend its quarterly meeting in Washington on Thursday, a participation rate she described as typical. CNBC reached out to each of the more than 200 companies whose chief executives are listed online as members of the Business Roundtable to ask whether they planned to attend Thursday's meeting. Only 17 would confirm whether or not the company's CEO was attending. The rest — more than 180 companies — did not respond to emails over several days. So here's what we know: Out of the 17 corporate spokespeople who replied to CNBC, four said their CEOs planned to attend: JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan and Edison International CEO Pedro Pizarro. Another 13 said their CEOs will not be going to see Trump and Zients speak. Blackstone Group CEO and Trump ally Steve Schwarzman, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, Steelcase CEO Sara Armbruster, ExxonMobil CEO Darren Woods, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian, Morgan Stanley CEO Ted Pick and the company's executive chairman James Gorman, and Duke Energy CEO Lynn Good are among those who will be absent from the conference, according to their company representatives. Some of these, such as Armbruster, Good and Solomon, are not attending due to scheduling conflicts and travel. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, for instance, will reportedly be at the G7 summit in Italy. Representatives for Woods and Bastian did not reply to questions about why their chief executives won't be attending the meeting. Representatives for Fink and Nadella did not return requests for comment.