The Team

Mossy graduated from Reading University in 2002 with a BSc in Land Management, before heading north to Liverpool to complete a BVSc, graduating in 2009. After growing up in Berkshire, Mossy now lives in Uppingham, and enjoys the cattle side of the practice, especially the medicine and surgery.

Mossy, like Mike Thorne, has a helicopter pilot’s licence and makes some of his client visits, or emergency call-outs, by air.

A keen motorcyclist, Andrew has travelled all over Europe on his beloved two wheels.

Max graduated from the University of Liverpool in 2006, then moved back to Nottinghamshire to work as a large animal vet until 2012. During this time he was responsible for a separate game bird and poultry practice covering the Eastern counties.

Max moved to Devon in 2012 to lead a brand new large animal practice, working out of a large agri-retail store. He returned to the East Midlands in July 2015 to join FVS as a full-time farm vet based at the Melton branch. His interests are across all aspects of dairy, beef and sheep health, as well as game birds.

Any free time is generally spent running his farm shoot and having a few games of cricket in the summer.

Freddie graduated from the University of Nottingham and has been with FVS since September 2019.

Freddie grew up on a family dairy, and now beef, farm in Nottinghamshire, and enjoys all aspects of large animal work, especially herd health planning.

Outside of work, Freddie spends time helping on the family farm but also enjoys travelling to new places and playing sport, including football and cycling.

Rebecca graduated from the University of Nottingham in 2014 and worked for 2 years as a farm animal vet down in West Sussex. After a brief interlude spent travelling in America and Canada, she joined the practice as a mixed animal vet in January 2017. She has a key interest in sheep medicine and flock health.

Outside of work, Becca enjoys attempting any sport, particularly tennis and cycling.

Emil qualified as a veterinary surgeon in 2010 in the city of Bucharest at USAMV University in Romania. He then worked in a slaughterhouse as a meat inspector and also as a pig pathologist for 2 years. He joined Farm Veterinary Solutions in November 2017.

Emil is one of our TB testers and has a keen interest in everything large animal.

When he is not TB-testing, Emil enjoys walking and camping in the countryside, photography, and riding his motor-cycle.

Maria is originally from LA Rioja in Spain and she qualified as a veterinary surgeon in Argentina in 2018 whilst working with Equine, Cattle and Exotic animals.  

Maria has a keen interest in all aspects of farm animal.  In her spare time she enjoys travelling with friends, sketching and attending music events.

Sam grew up in the sunny south-east and made his way slightly northwards to graduate from the University of Cambridge.
He has since been with FVS, starting in September 2021, where he enjoys all elements of farm animal medicine and surgery, especially beef and sheep health planning and preventative medicine.

Outside of work, he enjoys going on long bike rides and walks, cooking vast quantities of food, playing video games and is always up for a game of squash.