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 over 12 years of diverse, global experience across financial services and investment management, management consulting, start-ups, social enterprise, and charity. Having lived with daily chronic migraine for the last ten years, Katy is extremely passionate about supporting The Migraine Trust’s cause.

Gary George

Gary is a Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee at The Migraine Trust. He joined The Migraine Trust board after previously holding a similar role at Migraine Action, and where he played a leading part in persuading the membership that its resources could be deployed more efficiently by transferring them to The Migraine Trust. He has recently retired following career in which he spent over 40 years in investment banking and fund management, holding senior management positions across a variety of fields including credit analysis, leveraged finance, risk management and corporate restructurings.

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 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

Pippa is a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in London. She has a background in medicine, completing her medical degree at both Cambridge University and King’s College London, as well as holding a BA in Archeology and Anthropology. Her medical experience includes working in elderly care, neurosurgery and emergency medicine, eventually specialising in Ear Nose Throat surgery. After involvement in several quality improvement projects and hospital transformations, she transitioned to management consulting, where she has worked with C-suite clients on topics such as corporate strategy, commercial due diligence and digital/financial transformations. She is also an LGBTQ+ leader across McKinsey Europe, global learning program facilitator, and leads the McKinsey medical elective program.

Mike Wakefield

Mike Wakefield spent his career within blue chip companies including Pan Am, United Biscuits and Anheuser-Busch. Following early retirement, Mike joined several trustee boards and was the chair of Migraine Action.