AGA NLT 2025

David Tobey
Executive Director and Principal Investigator
National CyberWatch Center


Dr. David H. Tobey is the Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the CyberWatch Center, a national consortium of over 500 colleges and universities supported by the National Science Foundation, headquartered at Prince George's Community College. Dr. Tobey’s research applies the latest advances in neuroscience to understand, assess, and improve readiness to learn, become certified, and advance throughout a professional career. His research discovered the neural foundations of expert performance—the brain’s equivalent to a software applet that Dr. Tobey labeled a thinkLet. The formation of thinkLets is detected by the psychometric technique, Potential Performance Analysis.™ PPA can accurately diagnose the current level and future potential of proficiency, competency, and mastery development and identify the most appropriate interventions to reach maximum potential. Dr. Tobey is also a serial entrepreneur. He has led or assisted with developing regional, national, and international translational research centers. The businesses he founded were listed by Inc. Magazine among the fastest-growing companies in the United States, set international industry standards, and became publicly traded corporations through mergers or Initial Public Offering (IPO). Dr. Tobey has served as a consultant, executive officer, or board member for private and public companies in the distribution, financial services, hospitality, information technology, life sciences, publishing, and transportation industries

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