Angela Mariconda

Office and Accounts Manager

I joined BVNA in 1993 with my main responsibility being book-keeper, however I quickly volunteered to take on additional tasks which included processing the association’s membership and exhibitor bookings for congress. I enjoy keeping busy as well as a challenge, so over the years I have had many different roles with BVNA and in 2020 changed my job role again to ‘Office and Accounts Manager’.

My main responsibilities are managing the associations accounts and finances, providing management reports and support to the Chief Executive, as well as managing the office, equipment and resources.

Outside of BVNA, I enjoy travelling with my husband and have been fortunate enough to visit some amazing places.

We both enjoy diving and skiing and I’ve always enjoyed keeping fit so took up running during lockdown. I also enjoy reading and socialising, as well as cooking so try to cook at least one new recipe a month.

We volunteered in 2021 and look after a dachshund twice a week, named Poppy. She is a sassy little thing and makes us laugh all the time.

I’m a great believer in finding what makes you happy. Life is precious, so love what you do!

Charlotte Bullard

Head of Policy and Public Affairs

I completed my BSc in Equine Sports Therapy in 2014 and, after spending a year as a receptionist in a small animal veterinary practice in Suffolk, in 2016 I moved to work as a Course Assistant for an equine distance learning college near Newmarket. There I progressed to the role of Programme Manager, which involved overseeing and teaching predominantly equine veterinary nursing and equine therapy students. I loved experimenting with innovative ways of delivering teaching and online resources – and this led me to pursue the MSc in Veterinary Education at the Royal Veterinary College, which I completed in 2021.

I joined the BVNA in Summer 2019 as Education Manager, and have since taken up the role of Learning, Development and Communications Manager. The main aspects of my work for BVNA include overseeing our CPD provision, and ensuring this leads to a real impact on professional practice plus future opportunities for development for our members. I also develop our Scientific Programme for our annual BVNA Congress. Finally, I oversee our communications and campaigns, including our annual Veterinary Nursing Awareness Month and ongoing campaign for statutory protection of the 'Veterinary Nurse' title.

I live with my husband David in the depths of the countryside on the Suffolk/Norfolk border, and outside work I am most frequently found in wellies! I have a Welsh Section D called Hazel, who I’ve owned from a 2-year old and have slowly started her ridden career since then. We also have a young Border Terrier called Jonty, who loves joining us to explore other areas of the countryside in the UK – I will walk for hours as long as there is a good pub at the end of it!

Danni Moeser

Membership and Marketing Co-Ordinator

I graduated from University in 2013, where I studied Outdoor Leadership. I am very active and it is very rare that I will be sitting down not doing anything! I enjoy skiing, surfing, horse riding and running, and have previously completed several half marathons and a full marathon. I have been at BVNA since February 2019 and I am currently the Marketing and Membership Co-Ordinator. I am responsible for BVNA's membership admin tasks and I manage BVNA’s social media platforms, while assisting with our events, projects and campaigns.

Huw Jones

Chief Executive Officer

I joined the BVNA as Chief Executive in May 2020 during Lockdown!! A strange time to join but the members, officers and staff have been incredibly helpful and I’m looking forward to actually meeting them at some time soon. Before that I had 2 years at Age UK London delivering their Trusted Traders Business Directory and Insurance Products. This was very rewarding as it made a real difference to vulnerable older people, and I met the traders who all wanted to give something back to the community. Before that I was at the North London Chamber of Commerce where I spent 17 years, most of it as Chief Executive. This experience enabled me to use my previous experience in the private sector, and also gave me an insight into working for a membership organisation. The membership business model is unlike anything I had ever come across before during my time in the private sector!! However, I thoroughly enjoyed it as well as growing the membership, and providing a variety of events the opportunity to make a real difference to business, helping them grow and thrive in North London was very rewarding. Representing the views of members to senior influencers, politicians and partners to ensure future support is based on the needs of business.

Originally from South Wales I moved to London when I took up a position with Islington Council and have never moved back, London is my home. I now live in Crouch End North London, with my wife Sadia and my daughter Amelia. We can see Alexandra Palace from my house and are fortunate in that we are surrounded by many beautiful green spaces such as Hampstead Heath, Kenwood House and various local parks. We are quite an active and sporty family and try to be out most weekends. As a Welshman I passionate about Rugby although at school I never played. Being in the Millennium Stadium with 80,000 singing the national anthem is very moving. I do look forward to the 6 nations, and hope that the best team wins, as long as they are wearing RED!!

In spite of my busy lifestyle I manage to keep myself fairly fit and enjoy the odd round of golf, a weekly yoga class and a run when I can motivate myself to do it!! I enjoy the theatre, concerts, eating out and nice holidays and am hoping we can all get back to this sometime soon. I also like to read and as an avid people watcher I enjoy reading biographies, but having a young family means that this usually only happens on holiday. We don’t have any pets, my family had dogs when I was younger. However, I will be looking to spend a couple of days in a practice after Lockdown to broaden my own knowledge and start to understand the real difference our fabulous nurses make.

Lisa Brett

Events Manager

I have had a variety of administration jobs from Essex Police to Financial Times Publishing. After being made redundant whilst on maternity leave from FT, I started undertaking temping for an agency and my first assignment was at BVNA! A job came up about 6 months later and I have just celebrated my 27 year anniversary.

I am the Events Manager at BVNA where I am responsible for the operations of BVNA Congress, from ordering enough lunches for everyone, planning and setting up the venue to ensuring that our exhibitors, delegates, guests and speakers have an amazing experience!

I have been married to Rob for 32 years and have 2 daughters, Jasmine who is a Senior Paediatric Staff Nurse at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Rachel, who is in the jewellery trade.

We have a 5 year old French Bulldog called Ronnie, who loves a snuggle with whomever is willing! I am a member of Harlow Running & Tri Club and have completed many 5k and 10k races, including cross country and half-marathons...no, I'm never doing a full marathon!

Myself and my hubby love to travel, visiting many new destinations every year, most recently on a Caribbean cruise!

Michelle Humphries

Council & CPD Support Co-ordinator

I joined BVNA in April 2024 as their Council & CPD Support Co-Ordinator.

My responsibilities include supporting the BVNA Council which includes organising their meetings and being their Minute Taker, managing and processing course enrolments, supporting the BVNA Advocates with their online and in-person events, providing administration support for the speaker programme for BVNA Congress and managing the annual council elections process.

Prior to joining BVNA I have held a variety of positions. These include for an Events & Exhibitions Agency, a Charity, Panel Administrator for a Fostering Agency, as well as several training administration roles.

I live with my husband, two teenage daughters and our much-adored and very cuddly Zuchon called Harlie. As a family we enjoy camping (well glamping!) holidays, playing badminton and watching films together. I also love dog walks, reading and meeting up with friends and family.

Nicola Ruedisueli

Editor in Chief

Nicola Ruedisueli

I qualified as a veterinary nurse in 1985 whilst working at Liverpool University Small Animal Hospital. I moved to Nottingham to work in an orthopaedic referral practice before moving to Mars UK for twelve years. During this time, I managed veterinary practices in the South West area selling clinical diets and educating vets and nurses on nutrition. I progressed to working as a veterinary nurse at the Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, then on to the Technical Helpline. After training veterinary students in clinical nutrition I moved to Nottingham Trent University to write the FdSc Veterinary Nursing programme in 2008. The course went on to become the highest-recruiting FdSc VN programme in the UK in 2015.

In 2019, I jumped at the chance to become the Head of Learning and Development at the BVNA. The main part of the role is as Editor in Chief of the VNJ; overseeing the articles, mentoring authors and developing the strategy to grow the impact of the journal. The L&D department develops CPD that will enable BVNA members to increase the influence they have on nursing practice.

My role has now evolved as BVNA moved to publish the VNJ ourselves in 2022 using designers and digital publishers to produce the bi-monthly journal. We could not achieve the high quality content without students and veterinary nurses sending us their work. I am proud to be part of building evidence-based nursing practice.

I still work in a local veterinary hospital on a weekend rota to keep up to date with my nursing skills. My husband worries about which animals I will bring home at the end of a shift.

I have two sons, two dogs, two cats, two chickens and a blue-tongued skink. When not looking after the animals I take a gentle jog around the village fields. I don’t often confess to enjoying the original Star Trek series but I am often found watching Marvel films or Disney cartoons.