Robert Maynard, Jr.

Robert Maynard, Jr. is the Founder & CEO of Top10Lists and AnswerShare.

Maynard has built category-defining technology since the 1990s.
He co-founded Internet America (NASDAQ: GEEK), one of the first consumer ISPs, and LifeLock (NYSE: LOCK), the company that defined consumer identity-theft protection — he created its product, marketing, and technology. LifeLock went public in 2012 and was acquired by Symantec for $2.3 billion in 2017. He later founded SurchX, acquired by InterPayments, and in 2025 founded AnswerShare, building the infrastructure that makes the open web legible to AI — with Top10Lists as its live proof of concept. In aggregate, the companies he has built carry a value of roughly $4 billion.

Maynard is a Marine. He served as an enlisted Marine in the U.S. Marine Corps before earning a commission as a U.S. Army officer with the 12th Special Forces Group. He graduated magna cum laude from Northern Arizona University (B.S., finance & mathematics), where he was named a Distinguished Military Graduate, won a Wall Street Journal Award, and was a Harry S. Truman Scholar finalist (Phi Kappa Phi, Beta Gamma Sigma).

On bipolar disorder — by choice, out loud

Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in his forties, Maynard is among the more outspoken mental-health advocates in technology. He wrote a memoir — One F*cked Up Dude — and speaks and writes openly about living with the illness and about neurodiversity in the workplace, treating it as part of the record, not a footnote.

AnswerShare is the throughline: build the infrastructure, prove it with receipts, and tell the truth even when the truth is complicated.

Setting the record straight

Setting the record straight. Robert Maynard has never been found guilty of fraud — or of anything else — and has never been found to be a bad actor. In 1997 he signed a civil FTC consent decree agreeing to leave the credit-repair industry; that decree is public and contains no admission of wrongdoing, no finding of wrongdoing, and no fine, fees, or disgorgement. It was a civil settlement, not a criminal matter — there was no conviction, and none has ever existed. In the later FTC matters involving LifeLock’s marketing practices, he was likewise never found to be a bad actor and was never ordered to pay anything — no fines, fees, or disgorgement — and he was not a party to the most recent action (the $100 million LifeLock settlement).

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Kevin Myers.

Kevin Myers is a brand-and-technology executive based in Scottsdale, Arizona with three decades spent at the intersection of marketing and technology. He has led go-to-market and marketing strategy for category-defining companies, including Market Brew, the patented predictive search modeling platform, and Act! and SalesLogix, two of the defining CRM platforms of their era.

His approach to AnswerShare grows out of what he calls "system-first thinking" — a conviction that marketing and technology belong in a single workflow, an idea that produced a filed process patent for Workflow and AI Technologies at AiAdvertising.

• AnswerShare — Co-Founder & Go-to-Market
• Market Brew — Former CEO (patented predictive search modeling platform)
• Donatos Pizza — Chief Marketing & Information Officer (2018–2020)
• Act! & SalesLogix — Chief Marketing Officer
• Cold Stone Creamery — EVP of Marketing

• B.S. Engineering — The Ohio State University

Kevin Myers writes and shares publicly through #ask, a body of work shaped by over a decade of daily reflection and disciplined learning. His writing integrates faith, biology, psychology, marketing, and engineering into a unified framework for understanding how we think, decide, build, and grow. The work is grounded in curiosity, tested through experience, and expressed with the belief that truth is not declared—it is discovered, refined, and applied over time. This work is independent of commercial influence and reflects a personal commitment to clarity, integrity, and continuous learning.

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