Justin is a reputation specialist with more than 20 years’ experience in policy development, communications and campaign management. In 2002, he founded 8hwe, an agency specialising in campaigns, crisis communications and behaviour change.
Prior to this he served in the Cabinet Office and worked in political and corporate communications. Justin has degrees from Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford and Imperial College Management School.
Jane started her career as an internal consultant at the Metropolitan Police. She later transferred to Surrey Police before attending the Strategic Command Course. On completion of the course Jane operated at Executive level in a number of organisations before returning to Surrey Police where she took on the responsibility for all People Services across Surrey and Sussex Police. Most recently she led the introduction of a new ERP solution across Surrey, Sussex and Thames Valley Police. Jane has her own consultancy business focusing on strategic development, organization design and transformation. Jane is a Non Executive Director for University Hospital Southampton Trust and is also a Trustee for the Wooden Spoon, a charity which funds projects to enhance the lives of children and young people that are disadvantaged physically, mentally or socially.Jane has a BSc, MSc and an MBA. She is married with children and enjoys watching rugby, skiing and trying to keep fit.
Paul Boughton, a chartered accountant, has worked on international acquisitions and business development for more than 30 years.
Currently, he is Non-Executive Chairman of Quartix, a vehicle tracking and driver analytics business, and Business Development Director of Aventics, a German industrial pneumatics manufacturer. He served as Corporate Development Director of industrial companies including IMI, Spectris, Consort Medical and Brammer. Paul has also been a Non-Executive Director of other technology companies. Paul is also a Trustee and Treasurer of Shooting Star Chase, the children's hospice charity.
Paul lives in Esher and is married with two adult children. He is a keen squash player, rugby supporter and sailor, being a member of Harlequins Rugby and Sandown Sports Clubs.
Sarah became involved with Missing People in 2009 as a volunteer Family Representative; she has also been a member of the Trustee Development Board and the Counselling Project Group and has spoken at various conferences and events on behalf of the charity. As the mother of Quentin Godwin, who went missing in New Zealand in 1992, she has direct experience of ‘missing’; her own family experiences plus meeting and working with other families, has led to a deep understanding of the issues and complexity of the missing scenario. Missing People has achieved so much in the last few years, but there is a desperate need for the services presently offered to be developed and extended still further – this is the vision that excites and motivates Sarah to work within the charity.
Sarah is also proud to be a member of the Missing People Choir since it started in 2014. Our appearances on Britain's Got Talent in 2017 gained a huge audience for the charity and for many issues around 'missing'. The choir will continue to reach out with music and promote Missing People at every opportunity.
In her professional life, Sarah has been a fundraising consultant and worked in the charity sector for 14 years. In New Zealand, she taught English as a second language and was a full time mother to 4 children for many years. She now lives in a Surrey village with her partner, has several grandchildren, dog and garden to keep her well occupied.
Ebru is a social impact and sustainability professional with 15 years’ experience shifting mindsets and culture to embed ESG across matrixed organizations. Currently in a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) role at a global technology company, she brings to the Missing People Board enthusiasm, curiosity, diverse skills in shaping and implementing strategic targets and policies, and driving engagement around environmental and social issues.
Andy is a retired senior officer from Police Scotland whose life experience has made him immensely passionate about all things missing. As a career detective, he held many strategic policing positions including covert policing, violence prevention, advisor to the Scottish Government and served time with the National Crime Faculty where he had a national remit for suspicious missing persons and no body murders. He was also responsible for strategically shaping and driving Scotland’s policing and partnership response to missing, where he became involved with the charity. He has an MBA and enjoys hill walking, mountain cycling and walking his dogs.
Caroline Rawes joins the Board in 2023, bringing over 30 years’ experience of human resource management, recruitment, learning and organisational development. She has expertise in driving high performance, broadening talent pipelines, building values-driven culture and leadership development programmes and is passionate about inclusion and diversity. She has been part of executive leadership teams at Taylor Wessing and Ashurst in the legal sector and is currently the Chief HR Officer at private equity firm, Cinven Ltd.
Caroline has prior experience as a trustee at an inner city academy trust and on the advisory board at a university business school. Caroline enjoys cooking, reading, yoga and HIIT sessions and walking the family dog in Richmond Park, ideally with her three children in tow!
Tina began her career as a social worker working in statutory child protection settings before moving into frontline roles within the voluntary sector working directly with children, young people and their families.
Since 2017, Tina has worked as a governance and company secretarial professional supporting charity and public sector organisations to implement and uphold best practice governance. In 2019, Tina passed the Chartered Governance Institute’s Charity Law and Governance qualification. Today, Tina is Senior Governance Manager at the General Dental Council.
Tina also has personal lived experience of ‘missing’ and is able offer and share insights and perspectives on ‘repeat missing’ following the repeated disappearance of a close family member.
Vijay is currently Chief Information Security Officer at the University of Cambridge. He is an experienced security and risk specialist, and has designed and managed cyber security programmes for large and high-profile organisations for over 20 years, including the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.
He has long been involved in promoting social justice, particularly for the vulnerable, and since 2016 has been a trustee of Disability Law Service, which provides free legal advice and representation to disabled people. He lives in London with his two teenage children.
Sam became a Trustee in 2017. He is the Founder and Expert Consultant at Obvious Marketing and specialises in working with boards, business owners and senior teams to create practical marketing growth strategies for ambitious growth businesses and organisations around the world. He has served clients in over 50 countries across 5 continents.
Sam is also the Founder of the personal branding consultancy, Obvious Candidate and the Co-Founder of ProBLife, a biotech startup pioneering probiotic solutions. He has previously held branding and commercial positions at The Healthy Marketing Team, Design Bridge, Procter & Gamble, Kraft Foods and Walgreens Boots Alliance. He has a BA in Financial & Business Economics from Newcastle University Business School and a Masters in Entrepreneurship from Durham University Business School. In 2015 he qualified in Marketing Strategy from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in the USA.
In 2017, Sam completed the Liverpool to London cycle challenge and the London-Surrey100 for Missing People.