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 Consulting 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 was assembled to support the company’s vision. In 2005, 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 (documented on Good Morning America).
In 2009 Ms. Thomas merged X and Y Consulting (fresh donor cycles) and CEI (egg banking) into 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 focus on customer relations and service. The key portions of medical and scientific development were managed by Medical Director, Dr. Patricia McShane and Scientific Director, Dr. Kimball Pomeroy. Both are 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.
In 2021, Ms. Thomas led the company’s expansion into more comprehensive gamete banking services, including donor sperm. The result is the company known today as The World Egg and Sperm Bank. Through Ms. Thomas’ direction, The World Egg and Sperm Bank now offers the best in donor egg and sperm technologies for parents-to-be. The World Egg and Sperm Bank is the only egg and sperm bank in the US that medically manages donors in a single, state-of-the-art facility (Scottsdale, Arizona, USA). Further, we set the global benchmark in providing full, end-to-end logistical control from recruitment to delivery. Our verifiable adherence to international standards and regulation far surpasses US standards.