Nicholas Wall, DDS
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Nicholas Wall is a dentist, educator, and founding partner of Cusp Education and Media. He has practiced for more than 20 years and owned multiple dental practices across the Phoenix area. For the past eight years, he has served as a full-time Assistant Professor at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine-Arizona. His roles have included Clinical Care Coordinator. He received the Dean's Spirit of Service Award and completed the Costin Institute. He has completed more than 1,000 hours of continuing education and provided dental care on mission trips in Samoa, Tonga, Guatemala, and Mexico. At Cusp, he brings practice ownership, clinical teaching, and curriculum experience to the company's education and media work.
William Brachvogel, DDS
Chief Educational Officer
Dr. William A. Brachvogel is an Associate Professor and Clinical Care Coordinator at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine-Arizona, where he has served since 2015. With more than three decades of clinical experience, he teaches comprehensive dentistry, treatment planning, ethics, practice management, orofacial pain, and contemporary dental technologies. His academic leadership and service have been recognized through the 2024 MWU Dean's Spirit of Service Award, two Faculty of the Year Awards, the ADEA Leadership Institute Fellowship, and fellowships in several professional organizations (International College of Dentists, American College of Dentists, and Sigma Xi Research Honor Society). His scholarly interests include dental materials, laser applications, oral health, practice-based research, and dental education.
Thomas Caspers, DDS, MEd
Chief Financial Officer
Dr. Thomas Caspers is a Clinical Associate Professor and Clinical Care Coordinator at Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine-Arizona. Drawing on nearly three decades as a private-practice owner and clinician, he leads clinical operations, faculty development, and comprehensive patient care education. He previously directed the Center for Advanced General Dentistry and developed practice-management courses and clinical curricula. He earned his DDS from the University of Washington and an MEd in Instructional Design from Western Governors University. A Fellow of the International College of Dentists, he has been named Clinical Faculty of the Year three times. His scholarship focuses on clinical education, faculty calibration, and patient-centered care.
Christopher Wall, MD
Chief Operating Officer
Dr. Wall is a board-certified adult and child psychiatrist and award-winning researcher and educator. On the Mayo Clinic faculty, he received multiple awards for research and educational excellence, with funded research spanning treatment-resistant depression, transcranial magnetic stimulation, and pharmacogenomics, and he developed curriculum for the Mayo Clinic Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. He founded and led PrairieCare Medical Group's Southern Minnesota division and later served as PrairieCare's Chief Medical Officer, expanding educational and clinical opportunities for advanced practitioners and aspiring clinicians. He also founded the fundraising platform 4giving.com. As a Cusp Co-Founder, he draws on his experience in technology, clinical innovation, advancing education, organizational leadership, and measuring outcomes.
Pete Carr
CuspTutor platform development and operations
Pete Carr is a software architect and full stack developer who takes products from early concepts through launch and ongoing operation. His work with Roblox has involved systems handling 10,000 or more requests per second, giving him practical experience in performance, reliability, and architecture at scale. His projects include 4giving, which has helped raise more than $4 million for schools, teams, and other causes, and an early version of the platform behind Finding Focus, a student attention and well-being program developed at UC Santa Barbara and UT Austin with U.S. Department of Education funding. At Cusp, he brings this experience across education, fundraising, and AI to the architecture, development, and operation of CuspTutor.
Malachy McLaughlin
Lecture video and audio production
Malachy McLaughlin brings a background in education and media production to Cusp's lecture video and audio work. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Wales, a postgraduate degree in Education from Edge Hill University, and an MSc from Queen's University Belfast. He spent more than six years in education, teaching across the UK, Europe, and Asia, helping design school curriculums and learning resources. He then moved into course creation, producing more than 500 hours of professionally edited content for a range of courses and clients. At Cusp, he draws on his teaching and production experience to shape academic content into polished video and audio.