Diana Thomas, M.A.
President & CEO
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Biography
In 1985 Diana Thomas graduated Magna Cum Laude from Arizona State University with a Master’s Degree in Architectural History. Her undergraduate work was completed in Canada, where she has dual citizenship. From 1979 to 1996 Ms. Thomas held a number of leadership positions in the study and preservation of historic architecture in both the United States and Canada. She was head of Alberta’s Provincial Inventory of Historic Sites, where she gained more than seven years of managerial experience, initiated innovations in her field, obtained private funding, and implemented new database systems nation-wide. In 1992 Ms. Thomas’ managerial and administrative talents brought her back to Arizona, where she continued to develop and manage multi-million dollar historic preservation granting funds and projects.
Throughout her career, Ms. Thomas struggled with infertility. Egg donation was cutting edge technology at the time, and Ms. Thomas was told she would have to find her own egg donor, which she did. In 1996, she gave birth to a healthy child, who was one of the first 100 babies born with donor eggs in the US. After that success, infertility doctors contacted her to find egg donors for their other patients. Thus, Ms. Thomas combined her extensive knowledge of the infertility industry, IVF, and donor IVF processes, with her administrative and managerial skills to form one of the first egg donor recruiting/ matching agencies in the US: X and Y Consulting. Ms. Thomas grew X and Y internationally while compiling a donor roster of hundreds of potential egg donors. During this time she traveled internationally, meeting infertility professionals at every level. Her managerial skills led her to cultivate healthy relationships with industry fertility specialists, business professionals, and vendors, including psychologists, genetic counselors and laboratories. Thomas’ compassion and experience have helped match thousands of couples with egg donors worldwide.
In 2004 Ms. Thomas, along with Drs. Jeffrey Boldt and James Akin founded Cryo Eggs International (CEI). Dr. Boldt was one of the pioneers in developing egg freezing technology. During this time a world-renowned medical and scientific advisory board were assembled to support the company’s vision. CEI provided the frozen donor oocytes that led to the birth of the first baby in the world born from eggs provided by a commercial egg bank in 2005 (documented on Good Morning America).
In 2009 Ms. Thomas merged X and Y Consulting (fresh donor cycles) and CEI (egg banking) into the company today known as The World Egg Bank. As CEO, without any business model precedents, Thomas developed the first independent egg bank. This included all daily operating systems and protocols with a customer relations focus on service. The key portions of medical and scientific development were managed by Medical Director Dr. Patricia McShane and Dr. Kimball Pomeroy, who were pioneers in their own right, and well respected in the infertility community. Ms. Thomas worked with her managerial team to implement quality control, best practices, daily operational functions, and growth opportunities with new technological developments.
Through Ms. Thomas’ direction The World Egg Bank now offers the best in egg donor technologies for parents-to-be. The World Egg Bank is the only egg bank in the US that manages all donor cycles to banked eggs in a state of the art facility built for that sole purpose, providing the highest-level experience and expertise available in the US.