If you were the MD of a big company that employed a lot of people.
Would you not meet the MD of a company that would give security of massive orders to your company because he in your eyes was a tit and stood for nothing you as a man stands for? Would you not take one for the team???
He might just send the Sales, or finance director, and apologise for having to be elsewhere and be unable to meet! It happens, in business and politics, as you know.