ICMEC works to make the world safer for children by eradicating child abduction, sexual abuse, and exploitation through advocacy, training, and collaboration. ICMEC’s programs and initiatives are identifying gaps in the global community’s ability to properly protect children from abduction, exploitation and abuse and expertly assemble the people, resources and tools needed to help fill those gaps. Caroline oversees ICMEC’s Global Missing Children’s Center. In this capacity, she develops national missing children policies, directs the Global Missing Children's Network, conducts research, and hosts international trainings, roundtables, and conferences.

Dr. Dominique Roe-Sepowitz is an associate professor at Arizona State University and is the Director of the ASU Office of Sex Trafficking Intervention Research. Dr. Roe-Sepowitz actively conducts research regarding sex and labor trafficking with specific focus on intervention studies for exiting, exploration of the sex traffickers regarding techniques and characteristics, and evaluating deterrence activities for sex buyers. Dr. Roe-Sepowitz has been invited to be a subject matter expert for the White House, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA, and the Office of Victims of Crime. Dr. Roe-Sepowitz is an appointed member of the City of Phoenix Human Trafficking Task Force and the Arizona Governor’s Human Trafficking Council.

Beginning in 2008, Dustin Driscoll worked as an analyst within the Case Analysis Unit at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC). In this position, he was responsible for providing analytical assistance to law enforcement officers working various types of missing child cases. He spent the majority of his employment at NCMEC assigned to the Forensic Services Unit, where he was responsible for conducting more in-depth analyses of cold case missing and unidentified deceased children. In 2011, Mr. Driscoll was promoted to a Senior Analyst with NCMEC.

Jamie Stirling has 28 years of search and rescue experience with the Ontario Provincial Police, including 6 years as their Provincial Search and Rescue Coordinator. He has managed some of Canada’s most challenging cases and is recognized as a Canadian Provincial Court expert in mapping and GPS systems. An “Honorary Canadian Ranger” with the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol, Jamie has provided technical assistance to numerous organizations, both provincial and national governments, where his operational knowledge in search and rescue has been instrumental in creating a foundation for search and rescue operations and programs.

Michelle Gruzs retired from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after serving the organization for over 31 years.  During her tenure, she primarily investigated and managed federal violations under the Criminal Investigative Program. Michelle has extensive experience working in Indian Country, including the Standing Rock and Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribes in South Dakota, where she was a member of the Safe Trails Drug Enforcement Task Force. Over the past 16 years, Michelle has had roles overseeing international criminal enterprise drug and gang cases, as well as the implementation of the Tribal Law and Order Act and the Safe Trails Task Forces. Most recently, Michelle investigated crimes on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and currently services as the Unit Chief over the Violent Crimes Against Children Program in Washington, D.C.

Rene Cayer retired at Captain rank from police department; he completed 27 years with Surete du Quebec. He has a wealth of experience in tactical response (SWAT) where he has worked for 13 years in various functions, and finally left the tactical world after serving as commander of the tactical team. He served with the Emergency Measures Directorate from 2010 to 2016; he coordinated the emergency measures programs for 3 years and spend the last 3 years of his police career in the role of coordinator of operations related to emergency management. In that assignment he managed many high risk missions including natural disasters, violent riots, Search and Rescue missions and finally many major incidents in the role of Strategic Incident Commander like in the train derailment in Lac-Megantic where the explosion of 72 fuel wagon resulted in the destruction of the downtown area and took the life of 47 persons.