Author: Michelle Laurie

Michelle Laurie
VP, Business Development
Michelle leads our business development and marketing teams at Donor Concierge, and is responsible for creating new partnerships and expanding our global market reach. Her knowledge of the fertility space has helped build our brand value and increased our network of agency, clinical and legal partnerships.
Michelle is originally from Canada and spent over a decade in the UK as a successful television producer and journalist, working for the BBC, National Geographic and the Discovery Channel. Michelle loves networking and connecting intended parents, clinics, attorneys and agencies together! She's a passionate supporter of AIDS/Lifecycle and volunteers her time regularly.
Answering your top 5 egg donation questions
Posted in Egg Donation on April 29, 2022 by Michelle LaurieOur team has decades of experience working with hopeful parents seeking egg donors, sperm donors, surrogates to start their families. We know the egg donation … Read the Story
Finding A Sperm Donor
Posted in Sperm Donation on June 14, 2021 by Michelle Laurie“Today is insemination day! We are so excited and so grateful that we found the perfect donor. We just wanted to write to tell you again just how grateful we … Read the Story
The Mother Project
Posted in Surrogacy on November 26, 2019 by Michelle LaurieReaders of the UK’s Times newspaper have been following the fertility journey of Sophie Beresiner, who writes The Mother Project . I won’t spoil it by … Read the Story
Embryo Donation: "What should I tell my son?"
Posted in General Fertility on October 31, 2019 by Michelle LaurieWhat options do parents have when it comes to the embryos remaining once their family is complete? How do those looking for embryos actually find them? Embryo … Read the Story
Anger: An IVF Story
Posted in Infertility on April 19, 2019 by Michelle LaurieThere are moments in life that are seared into memory, some joyous, others tragic. The feel of the sun's warmth, a lilting breeze, the look on a loved one's … Read the Story
Who Can I Talk To About Infertility?
Posted in Donor Concierge on February 10, 2015 by Michelle LaurieEach week at Donor Concierge we have a team meeting to discuss the week's work, which clients have been matched with which donors or which surrogates and other … Read the Story
What is an Egg Donor Travel Cycle?
Posted in International on January 20, 2015 by Michelle LaurieThis last month, we’ve had one birth via surrogacy for a client from Italy, a UK couple cycling with an egg donor in Arizona and a completed donor egg and … Read the Story
Finding The 'Perfect' Egg Donor
Posted in Egg Donation on July 31, 2014 by Michelle LaurieMany of our clients at Donor Concierge have come to us after an exhaustive search for the ‘perfect’ egg donor. “We found the perfect one but she was already in … Read the Story
Donor Concierge: "And What Do You Do?"
Posted in Donor Concierge on February 6, 2014 by Michelle LaurieAt a younger time in my life, I winced when asked the standard ‘And What Do You Do’ question at a gathering where people awkwardly attempt idle chit-chat. Both … Read the Story