The TheraTogs Team
Management Team
Beverly Cusick, PT, MS, C/NDT, CO
President/Co-Founder
Beverly (Billi) Cusick PT, NDT, MS, COF is an internationally-known pediatric physical therapist whose specialty is the management of lower extremity deformity, particularly in children with cerebral palsy, hypotonia, orthopedic malalignments, and other CNS deficits. She is known particularly for her passion, her diligence in bringing current developments in the rehabilitation sciences, her methods for obtaining and using precise and relevant patient observations, and for sharing informed and effective management strategies.
After five-years of R&D, her company, Progressive GaitWays, launched her invention, TheraTogs, in 2002. She and her spouse, Lee Taylor, co-founded TheraTogs, Inc. in 2006.
Ms. Cusick received her BS in PT from Bouve College at Northeastern University (Boston) and her MS in Clinical and College Teaching for Allied Health Professionals from the University of Kentucky in Lexington. She remains on call as an Associate Professor for the Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions – Pediatrics Program – Provo, Utah, and is NDT basic- and baby-trained.
Ms. Cusick worked for 9 years on staff at Children’s Rehabilitation Center (now the Kluge Center) in Charlottesville, VA. She then taught pediatrics-related courses for 3 years as a member of the PT Education faculty of the College of Health Related Professions at MUSC in Charleston, SC. In Charleston, she also initiated and directed PT services for the Division of Developmental Disabilities at the Medical University of South Carolina.
Since 1977 she has written or co-authored numerous publications- texts, journal articles, and chapters, and has conducted more than 400 courses, keynotes lectures, and guest presentations all over the world.
Since 1993, Billi has been consulting and practicing privately in Telluride, Colorado, where she devotes most of her professional effort to generating literature and educational materials, to teaching, and to developing therapeutic products, including new TheraTogs systems.
Lee Taylor
CEO | Co-Founder
Lee is a co-founder of TheraTogs, Inc. and has served as its CEO since the company’s opening. The spouse of fellow co-founder Beverly (Billi) Cusick, Lee is also a co-founder of two previous start-ups in the training and event management realms.
Lee has over 40 years of business experience in executive and operations management, information design, and information development, and was a published author on Web technologies “back in the day” before the programmers and filmmakers took over. He has managed purchasing and facilities for a major global law firm; consulted with Fortune 500 clients on information development and delivery systems; and hired and managed teams of technical writers, editors, and illustrators.
Lee was a Program Manager for the groundbreaking InfoZone community network project of the Telluride Institute – the first rural/small community Internet point-of-presence in the US. He has also enjoyed brief stints as a Kelly® Girl temporary, a college English instructor, and served on the board of the non-profit University Centers of the San Miguel.
Lee also serves on the San Miguel County Planning Commission and participates in local efforts towards economic development and sustainability.
Colleen Finnoff
Clinical Support Specialist
Since acquiring a BA in Kinesiology and Applied Physiology 15 years ago at the University of Colorado (Boulder), Mrs. Finnoff has not had one work day go by without using her degree!
Colleen’s early work experience included sales positions with Bionx Bioabsorbable Implants, Johnson & Johnson’s Mitek products, and Integra NeuroSciences, where she loved being a part of surgical procedures entailing the brain. After a brief entrepreneurial phase as the founder of a Post Rehab personal training studio – which included bringing Core Barre classes to the Boulder area – Colleen found her home with TheraTogs almost nine years ago.
Colleen started as TheraTogs’s original National Sales Manager, then helped establish the company’s Clinical Support team in 2008, where she provides technical support to clinicians using TheraTogs world-wide. She also manages the company’s Loaner Program, by which clinicians can use no-cost “loaner” systems to trial TheraTogs on specific clients.
When the outdoors calls her name, Colleen can be found enjoying activities through all four seasons, putting her anatomical, physiological, and biomechanical knowledge to work through Nordic skiing, mountain biking and road cycling, running trails, backpacking or just enjoying a colorful Colorado sunrise with a good, strong cup of joe!
Dr. Deborah Stack, PT, DPT, PCS
Lead Trainer
Dr. Stack is the founder and owner of Pediatric Therapy Center of Bucks County, LLC, an award-winning early intervention and pediatric therapy service operating since 2009. She has provided early intervention, pediatric, and adult physical therapy services since 1993.
Deborah received her BA from Mount Holyoke College in applied mathematics, and received her MS PT and DPT (Doctor of Physical Therapy) from Thomas Jefferson University. She is an APTA-certified Pediatric Clinical Specialist (PCS), and has received her APTA Clinical Instructor Certification. She is a Certified TheraTogs Trainer, and provides TheraTogs training worldwide.
She has authored multiple caregiver publications and taught multiple courses since 1994.
When time permits and the waters are calm, she is an avid rower and member of the Swan Creek Rowing Club, and served as the event coordinator of the Philadelphia Rowing Program for the Disabled. She is a consultant to the Bucks County Children’s Museum, and formerly served on the Special Needs Task Force of Doylestown Presbyterian Church.