Mike Carroll is Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He has held a number of senior appointments with the rail industry, specialising in commercial and general management and now works on a consultancy basis for the rail industry. Married with two children he became a Trustee after getting to know a number of people who have suffered from the disease and understanding from them what devastating after-effects if can have.

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 40’s and has been involved in the Trust since 1996.

Mike Hall FCA is Treasurer for the Trust. He is managing partner at the Cheltenham office of Horwath Clark Whitehill.

Professor Keith Cartwright MA BM FRCPath FFPH is the Trust’s former Medical Director, who stepped down in October 2009. He is one of the world’s leading experts on meningococcal disease and has been involved with the Trust since it formed in 1986. He was director of Public Health during the early outbreaks of meningitis in the Stroud / Stonehouse area in the early 1980s and 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.

Bob Johnson became involved with the 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.

Bernadette McGhie orginally trained and worked as a nurse and cared for many children suffering from meningitis, hence her interest in the work of the Meningitis Trust. She is now a solicitor with Michelmores in Exeter.

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

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.

Richard Greenhalgh is a marketing specialist and Managing Director of a marketing database agency based in Cirencester and London. He has many years experience in the marketing sector including setting up and running his own consultancy business for four years. He is married with three children.

Alastair Irvine was a stockbroker with more than 20 years experience and 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.