Meeting Speaker Bios

BRAD KUCHARO, CPA, CFP

Brad Kucharo is founder and CEO of Kucharo Wealth, which specializes in helping dentists, orthodontists, and other specialists in the dental profession achieve their financial and life goals by providing tax planning, business planning, financial planning, retirement planning, transition planning, and investment management services to high net-worth business owners in the dental industry.

He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and Certified Financial Planner™ (CFP®) practitioner and has been providing customized tax and business planning services exclusively for the dental profession since 2007. During this time, he has helped over 450 doctors across the country plan for financial independence, for reduced stress and greater peace of mind.

He formerly worked at Vanguard as a Senior Financial Advisor providing high net-worth clients with financial planning and investment advisory services. Additionally, he worked at the McGill & Hill Group for over 14 years providing customized tax planning, business planning, financial planning, retirement planning, transition planning, and investment planning services to high net-worth business owners in the dental industry. 

Lastly, he started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP as a tax accountant performing customized tax and financial planning services for high-net-worth individuals. He graduated from The University of Iowa and holds both a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and Master of Accountancy degree.

Brad is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants.


JOHN R. CHRISTENSEN DDS, MS, PA

Dr. John Christensen is a dual trained pediatric dentist and orthodontist from Durham, NC. Dr. Christensen is one of a small number of dual trained individuals who practice both specialties. In addition to private practice, he teaches in the pediatric dental and orthodontic residency programs at the University of North Carolina where his responsibilities include teaching early orthodontic treatment concepts, how to manage trauma and missing teeth with orthodontic care, and how to guide multidisciplinary approaches in children with unusual problems. He is also the director of the UNC Dental Trauma Team that has completed nearly 70 dental autotransplantation cases since 2019. Dr. Christensen is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Dentistry (DDS 1982). He received his graduate training in Pediatric Dentistry (MS 1984) and in Orthodontics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MS 1986). Dr. Christensen is an author and one of the editors of the 6th Edition of Pediatric Dentistry: Infancy Through Adolescence.


TREVOR NICHOLS DMD, MS

Dr. Trevor Nichols is a board-certified orthodontist practicing in Gilbert, Queen Creek, and Phoenix Arizona. Following his undergraduate studies as Valedictorian at Arizona State University, he attended the Arizona School for Dentistry and Oral Health where he earned his Doctorate in Dental Medicine and served as Class President. Dr. Nichols then completed his residency and specialty training in Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics while obtaining a Master’s in Orthodontics with a thesis on TMD. Dr. Nichols has obtained numerous inaugural awards and has been lecturing since 2018. He strongly believes our mission is about more than teeth—it’s about the people. Beyond his career, he cherishes his roles as a husband to Alyssa and father to their four boys. Rooted in faith and family, and with a strong passion for fitness, he inspires others with his philosophy that “the way you do anything is the way you do everything”.