David Tobey is the Executive Director and Principal Investigator of the National CyberWatch Center at Prince George's Community College in Largo, MD. He is also the CEO of VivoWorks Inc. VivoWorks workforce development solutions can uniquely scale and enhance expertise in teams, organizations, and professional communities. Dr. Tobey's research into the formation of expertise led to the development of a theory of competence development and expert performance. According to this theory, competence develops after sufficient practice leads to the formation of neural clusters deep in the unconscious that execute behavioral programs without the need to recall specific instructions or procedures—the brain’s equivalent to a software applet which Dr. Tobey labeled a thinkLet. ThinkLets may also explain performance declines and memory loss due to aging. According to this theory, mental degradation occurs when the links necessary to activate habituated memory traces atrophy as engagement in arousing activity declines due to disease or withdrawal from an active lifestyle. The formation and presence of thinkLets are detected by a new psychometric technique, Potential Performance Analysis™. PPA assesses the current level and potential of competence development and identifies appropriate interventions needed to reach or maintain maximum potential. Dr. Tobey is a serial entrepreneur. The businesses founded by Dr. Tobey have been listed by Inc. Magazine among the fastest-growing companies in the United States, set industry standards that were adopted internationally, and exited successfully through mergers with private and public companies or through a public offering.