We have a volunteer panel who support our work through sharing their experience of living with, or caring for someone with, migraine.

Rob Music, Chief Executive

Rob Music joined The Migraine Trust as chief executive in February 2021. He brings over 30 years of experience working for healthcare charities, starting out as a fundraiser and more recently Chief executive roles at Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust and Endometriosis UK, and has a wealth of skills including organisational growth, impact, government and health influence and service development. He is a proud trustee of the Neurological Alliance and an Honorary Advisor for the British Association for the Study of Headache.

He is passionate about working closely with people with migraine and developing partnerships to create positive change. Rob is committed to ensuring the charity’s vision of ‘a world where migraine doesn’t stop anyone from living the life they want’ becomes a reality for the ten million people living with migraine.

Our trustees

Michelle Walder, Chair

Michelle has a background in modern languages and law, and co-founded leadership development firm TXG in 2004. Her experience consists of developing corporate strategies, team effectiveness and C-suite consultancy, and coaching. She specialises in working with some of the most forward thinking boards who are keen to be the best in their sector. Michelle has senior development experience spanning several financial services firms including Commerzbank, Nomura, Societe Generale and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. She is also a non-executive director of Brighton and Hove Albion Football Club, where she also chairs the Women’s Football Club.

Katy Brown

Katy has 15 years of diverse, global experience across fintech, investment management, management consulting, social enterprise and charity. Having lived with daily chronic migraine for over ten years, Katy is extremely passionate about supporting The Migraine Trust’s cause.

Professor Peter Goadsby

Professor Goadsby MBBS MD PhD DSc FRACP FRCP is the Director of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Clinical Research Facility and Professor of Neurology at King’s College London. He is also the National Lead for Neurological Disorders for the Clinical Research Network, NIHR UK, a Trustee of the Organisation for the Understanding of Cluster Headache (OUCH UK) and Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee, Migraine Trust International Symposium.

Steph Hayle

Steph joined the charity with a background in accessibility and working with young people. She is a Non Executive Director at ILF Scotland, a member of the Office for Student’s Disability in Higher Education Advisory Board, and sits on Fitness to Practice panels for the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Pharmaceutical Council.

She was previously a Trustee at the University of York Student’s Union and was on the advisory board for Student Minds, where she specialised in student physical and mental health. She has been a UK delegate to the World Universities Network and has worked closely with local and national government bodies on improving support for both young and disabled people. She has also worked in fundraising for small charities addressing lesser-known medical conditions and has a co-authored paper published in the BMJ. She recently completed her Master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh Law School and worked as an accessibility consultant alongside her studies.

Dr Gina Kennedy

Dr Gina Kennedy BSc MBBCh MRCP PhD has been in the post of Neurology Consultant with specialist interest in Headache, at South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Trust, since April 2013, and Clinical Lead since 2019. She completed a PhD research degree at Cambridge University in 1993 and then graduated in Medicine at Oxford University in 2001. She completed Neurology Specialist Registrar Training in Neurology in the South West in March 2013 before settling in the North-East.

On a national level, Gina has been a member of the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH) since 2021 and is the current Scientific Officer. On a regional level, she is Chair of the Northern Regional Headache Multidisciplinary group. She is involved in developing local, regional and national pathways of care for patients with headache. She has an active role in headache clinical trials and up to date headache treatments with a keen interest in app technology to improve headache management.

Dr Kay Kennis

Dr Kennis is a GP with an extended role in headache (GPwER) in Bradford. She qualified from Oxford and undertook postgraduate training in medicine in Plymouth, where she obtained the MRCP, and then at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London. She opted for a career in Primary Care and trained in Bradford, obtaining the MRCGP and DFFP. She joined her current practice in Bradford in 2006, and is the clinical lead for women’s health at her practice. In partnership with colleagues from Primary Care and the Neurology Department at Bradford, she established a Primary Care Headache Service which is part of the Bradford Community Neurology Service. She has been a member of the British Association for the Study of Headache (BASH) GPwSI Headache Group since 2006. From 2010 until 2016 Dr Kennis was a member of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) Guideline Development Group which developed and updated the current NICE guideline on headache management.

Pippa Kindersley

Pip is a Principal at ghSMART. She previously worked as a Value Creation Director at Keensight, a European PE growth fund, and as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. She has a background in medicine, completing her medical degree at both Cambridge University and King’s College London and focusing on ENT surgery after her foundation years. In her current role at ghSMART, she focuses on getting the most influential leaders amplify their positive impact on the world – matching great leaders to roles where they can have the greatest impact. Pip is an LGBTQ+ advocate and trained mediator.

Iain Pelling

Ian trained as a Chartered Accounted and brings audit and audit oversight experience combined with significant financial stewardship expertise and understanding of charity governance. He is a successful organisation builder who has worked at board level with a number of organisations and is committed to using his financial and management skills for societal improvement. Ian has worked with a wide range of organisations including KPMG, the BBC and numerous media and production companies.

Mark Burdon

Mark Burdon is a practising community pharmacist with more than 25 years’ experience in healthcare, governance and leadership. He studied pharmacy at the University of Sunderland, graduating in 1999, and has since built and led a successful group of community pharmacies in the north-east of England.

Alongside his professional practice, Mark has held a number of senior governance roles within pharmacy at both national and international level. He previously served as Secretary General of the World Pharmacy Council, where he led global pharmacy initiatives aligned with international health priorities. Before this, he chaired the Resource Development and Finance Subcommittee of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee, representing community pharmacy interests at a national level.

Mark has retained close links with the University of Sunderland and joined its Board of Governors in August 2021. He was appointed Chair of the Board in 2025.

Mark also has extensive experience within the voluntary and charitable sector. He is Chairman and Director of Lynemouth Day Centre, a charity providing community care and support for older people and serves as Chairman and Director of Chester-le-Street Cricket Club.

Dr Prab Prabhakar

Dr Prab Prabhakar is Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. Educated at Stanley Medical College, Chennai, India, where he read medical sciences, he pursued a career as a paediatric neurologist, completing his clinical training in the UK.

He is a general neurologist who sees a wide variety of childhood neurological illness across the paediatric age range. His specialist interest is in children’s headache disorders. He joined the first dedicated Children’s Headache Clinic in England at Great Ormond Street Hospital founded by the late Dr Sarah Benton and Professor Peter Goadsby in 1999. He has led the service since 2007 and runs several primary and secondary headache clinics.

His research interest includes mental health comorbidities in children with headache, outcome measurement of headache disorders and newer therapies in headache disorder including CGRP monoclonal antibodies. He is on the Children and Adolescent Committee for the International Headache Society and sits on a number of advisory panels for Headache trial design.

He is a founding faculty of the CHaT (Children’s Headache Training) course developed through the BPNA (British Paediatric Neurology Association). He advocates through his work with organisations including the British Association for Study of Headaches (BASH), International Headache Society (IHS), Organisation for Understanding of Cluster Headaches (OUCH), Trigeminal Neuralgia Association UK and IIHUK.

He is an Examiner for the RCPCH and is the AAC sub speciality lead for neurology for the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

His career in leadership includes Clinical lead for the neurology service 2019-2025 at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Post Graduate Lead for Clinical Examinations at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital 2018-2025. He chairs the Neurology section of the North Thames Paediatric Network since 2019.