Akhil has been going to Arsenal since the age of four. He has increased his match going days over the years and now attends nearly every home and away game, and follows the club across Europe.
He is passionate about the role of supporters in the club and his aim is to play a part in improving the match day experience for not only Arsenal but all football fans. He is concerned at how much it now costs fans to attend football matches and works to support the AST initiatives on this subject. He takes great pride when the team do well and can often be found on media outlets talking about his love for Arsenal. Akhil works as a social media manager in a communication department and has a background in digital marketing/social media/PR.
Tim grew up in Islington where he attended the club's local school, Highbury Grove Comprehensive. He became a season ticket holder at age eleven in 1984 - the first year that season tickets were introduced for juniors, then costing £25 for the entire season (the seat he now sits in costs twice that for one match!).
Tim is one of the country's leading corporate communications and public affairs advisors in the sports world and was previously a Board Director at Mandate Communications, where he headed its Sports Advocacy practice. He has acted as an advisor to many sports' governing bodies including the Football Association, England and Wales Cricket Board, British Horseracing Authority and London 2012. He also established sportsthinktank.com, the country's first think tank dedicated to sports policy issues, a subject on which he also writes and lectures.
Tim acts as spokesperson for the AST, and also manages communication issues.
Glyn has been an Arsenal fan since 1970. He is a former Arsenal shareholder, a bond holder and sits above the half way line at the Emirates Stadium. Educated at Oxford University, he became a partner specialising in corporate law at one of the UK's largest law firms, CMS.
Glyn is a founder member of the Arsenal Supporters' Trust and takes primary responsibility for legal and compliance issues. Glyn chairs the AST AGM and other external meetings.
Phil is a second generation supporter and has followed Arsenal for as long as he can remember. The first football match he ever saw on television was the 1971 FA Cup final.
He first attended Highbury in 1972, saw Liam Brady's debut match the following year, then watched Arsenal struggle through the seventies and the wilderness years before George Graham's arrival. By the mid-1980s he was attending every home game. By the 1990s he had become a season ticket holder, and later a shareholder and bond holder.
Phil mourned the departure of David Seaman less for the fading of a great keeper than for the fact there will never be another Arsenal player older than Phil himself. Phil was also a regular contributor to The Gooner fanzine for two decades.
Nigel attended his first match at Highbury in 1974 (Leicester, 0-0) and has been a season ticket holder since 1985 and shareholder from 1991 to the compulsory purchase in 2018. His Arsenal highlight to date is Anfield 1989 (attended en route to the following day's Scotland vs. England game at Hampden). His favourite all time player is Tony Adams, upon whom he has modelled his own playing style.
Nigel cares passionately about the club and sees the AST as an important platform for improved dialogue with the Arsenal Board of Directors. He's keen to further the aims of the AST in whatever way he can.
A married father of four, he has worked in banking and finance since 1988. Son Henry attended his first match at Highbury against Farnborough in January 2003, aged just three and a half years.
Nigel is the Trust's expert on all finance issues at Arsenal and regularly analyses the club's financial results for AST members. He is the AST Treasurer.
Chloe joined the Board in 2019. Her passion for Arsenal was initiated by her late father Robin, who, although hailing from Peterborough, would be brought up to London by his grandfather who took him to Highbury because it was the nearest stadium to their arrival point at Kings Cross. Her first live game was the first FA Cup 4th round Cup tie against Leeds in January 1991. From that point she insisted on attending the remaining home games in what turned out to be a very successful season! She qualified as a ball girl for the match against Spurs in December 1993 and was lucky enough to win a spot at the Junior Gunners Christmas party later that month, which back then meant meeting all the first team players. A season ticket holder initially on the old Junior Gunner terraces at Highbury, she now resides in block 31, 8 rows behind the away dug out. Away from Arsenal, Chloe is a Client Relationship Director at Aviva and a Chelmsford City Councillor.
