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.

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.

Louise has worked in the charity sector for over 15 years, including roles in frontline service delivery in mental health, information provision and volunteering. Louise has worked with the LGBTQIA+ community, asylum seekers and refugees and the disability community, and currently works within volunteering at a large national charity. Louise is a qualified Psychotherapist and is passionate about Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. Louise has lived experience of ‘missing’, and looks forward to bringing her personal and professional experience to the Missing People Board.

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.

Rachel has more than 30 years business experience and is currently an independent consultant working with a wide range of organisations providing business coaching and corporate advisory services for board level executives. Rachel has extensive experience as a Non-Executive Director of private-equity backed businesses having been a member of the investment team at Alchemy Partners, a leading UK private equity firm. Prior to her work at Alchemy, she held finance roles in both Royal Dutch Shell plc and Diageo plc. Since 2021, she has been a non-Executive Director of Literacy Capital Plc, a listed investment company which supports and funds the Bookmark Reading Charity.

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.

Dr Anindita Sarkar is an experienced consultant clinical psychologist and former head of clinical services of a large London borough. She helped children, adults and communities with their mental health for more than 20 years, in the NHS (community and hospital) and local authorities (schools, social care, primary care and youth justice). She is the founder of Affiniti+, where she works to normalise conversations about mental health and differences in the brain. She is also a trustee for Chasing the Stigma, a national mental health charity. She brings a unique perspective as a woman of colour with dyslexia to her work. Dr Sarkar is known for giving personalised care and building strong connections with people – including a patient who went missing while in therapy with her. Because people who go missing often have mental-health issues, she is keen to bring more awareness of mental health to the work that Missing People does. Outside work, she loves the arts, travel, current affairs, spending time with friends and family.

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.

James is an Internal Audit professional within the Investment Banking, Private Banking and Wealth Management industry, having qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant, a Chartered Member of the Institute of Internal Audit and a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investments. In his current role, he is a Head of Audit and Operations Manager within the global Internal Audit function of a Swiss Bank. James is an operational Search Technician with London Search and Rescue, the Lowland Rescue team that supports the Metropolitan Police and City Police in the search for missing vulnerable people across London. Within the team, he has qualified as a Medic (FREC 3), Water First Responder, River Bank Search Technician and Search Operations Manager. Through this, he continues to gain lived experience of missing.

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.