Ernie Allen is President and Chief Executive Officer of the NCMEC. He has brought technology and innovation to the Center, including computer age progressions, a CyberTipline, and a Child Victim Identification Program. He also founded and is CEO of the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children which is helping to create a global response to the crisis of missing and exploited children.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Since it was established in 1984, the organization has operated the toll-free 24-hour national missing children’s hotline which has handled more than 3.4 million calls. It has assisted law enforcement in the recovery of more than 169,000 children. The organization’s CyberTipline has handled more than 1.2 million reports of child sexual exploitation and its Child Victim Identification Program has reviewed and analyzed more than 58,000,000 pornography images and videos. The organization works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice’s office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. To learn more about NCMEC, visit its Web site at www.missingkids.com.