Alastair Irvine is Chairman of the Board of Trustees and is a stockbroker with more than 20 years experience. He was the top rated equity research analyst in Europe in his specialist industrial sector. He is now a member of Triple Point Investment Management LLP, a boutique investment management house in the West End of London. He contracted meningitis as a child and was left completely deaf in one ear and with impairment to his hearing in the other. Alastair joined the Trustee Board in July 2009.

Gill Noble CB is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees. A retired senior civil servant who spent most of her career in the Treasury, she had meningitis in her early 40s which left her with a number of after-effects. Gill became a Trustee in 1995.

Mitchell Wolfe is Treasurer. He has extensive experience in the business world, holding a number of senior finance roles and as Managing Director of a manufacturing company. His experience ranges from managing MBOs to factory relocation and he now runs his own consultancy providing business coaching services for small and medium sized business and personal development training. He is a family man based in Cheltenham.

Prof Keith Cartwright MA BM FRCPath FFPH is the Meningitis Trust’s former Medical Director and is one of the world’s leading experts on meningococcal disease. He has been involved with the  Trust since it formed in 1986, as he was director of Public Health during the outbreaks of meningitis in the Stroud/Stonehouse area in the early 1980s. He was involved in the research and introduction of the meningococcal C vaccine in 1999 and has  played a big part in the development towards a future meningococcal B vaccine. Keith became a Trustee in 2009 when he stood down as Medical Director.

Les Green is a Company Director in South Wales. He began supporting the Meningitis Trust when friends were bereaved as a result of meningitis and became a Trustee in 2005.

Richard Greenhalgh is a marketing specialist and COO of an internet-based lifestyle and financial planning company.  He has many years experience in the marketing sector including as MD of a marketing database business as well as running his own consultancy for four years. He is married with three children. Richard became a Trustee in 2008.

Mike Hall FCA joined the board in 1999. He is managing partner at the Cheltenham office of Horwath Clark Whitehill.

Bob Johnson became involved with the Meningitis Trust when he lost his son James to meningitis in 1991. He is a founder member of the Meningitis Trust Essex Community Help Group. Bob retired in 2000 after working for Ford for 35 years in telecommunication management and became a Trustee in 2001.

Peter Johnson had a successful business career, leaving corporate life by choice to set up his own consultancy which specialises in developing individuals, teams and organisations to maximise their potential. He has been a Trustee of the Meningitis Trust since 2000 and held the position of Chairman of the Board of Trustees in 2008-2009.

James Kilmister is a director of Bristol-based Coldharbour Systems, developers of software for the healthcare industry. He contracted meningitis in 1998 and has been a supporter of the Trust since his recovery, becoming a Trustee in 2008.

Bernadette McGhie originally trained and worked as a nurse; caring for many children suffering from meningitis, hence her interest in the work of the Meningitis Trust. She then became a lawyer and is now a partner at law firm Michelmores in Exeter. Bernadette became a Trustee in 2001.

Eddie Wilson is a retired Director of Whitbread plc, having graduated as a scientist, and moved into general management. He is Chairman of Gloucestershire Business Link and became a Trustee in 2000.