Ryan Maynard

Ryan Maynard spent nearly two decades inside one of the world's largest financial institutions before deciding that the families he served deserved something different.

He began his career in the advisory services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he developed the analytical rigor and institutional discipline that still define his approach today. He then spent 19 years at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management, advising entrepreneurs, executives, and multi-generational families through business exits, liquidity events, estate transitions, and the full spectrum of complexity that accompanies significant wealth.

But the wirehouse model has structural limitations — and Ryan knew it. In 2021, he joined Vaquero Private Wealth to build something better: an independent, fiduciary practice with the institutional capabilities of a family office and the flexibility to act solely in the client's interest.

Ryan's approach is collaborative and precise. He works closely with each family to understand not just their financial position, but their financial purpose — the values, priorities, and long-term intentions that should drive every strategy. He then constructs plans expressly tailored to pursue those goals, integrating investment management, tax planning, estate architecture, and private market access into a single, coordinated system.

His background working with technology entrepreneurs gives him a particular edge in applying the best available digital tools and analytical frameworks to the capital management and financial planning process. He brings the same precision to portfolio construction that a pilot brings to a flight plan — methodical, adaptive, and always with the destination in mind.