# David Thomas David Thomas is the co-officer who, with [[Michael Montfort]], recurs on the Arkansas (and multi-state) Google-linked data-center shell entities. The DEE-DEQ production confirms at Tier-1 that he is an **attorney at [[Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati]]** acting as an **Authorized Signatory / organizer** — i.e., outside formation counsel, not a beneficial principal. ## Appearances in the corpus - **[[GROOT LLC]] — Authorized Signatory.** Groot's Delegation of Authority (eff. 2025-07-31) names *"David Thomas, Attorney at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati"* as Authorized Signatory for "written instruments … in connection with contracts related to permit applications," auto-revoking if he ceases to be a WSGR employee ([[Project Pyramid SEEK Construction-Stormwater Records]], `Groot LLC - DOA - David Thomas.docx.pdf`, p. 1). - **[[Spark Innovations, LLC]] — Incorporator/Organizer.** The Arkansas SoS registry lists "DAVID THOMAS" as Incorporator/Organizer of Spark Innovations LLC (the Conway Project Stratus NDA "Company"), with [[Michael Montfort]] as Manager (see [[Michael Montfort]]). - **Multi-state pattern (Tier-3).** A STLPR/KCUR investigation (2025-09-08) found Montfort and David Thomas as the same two registered officers across ~7 LLCs in four states, all tied to early-stage Google data-center projects (see the [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003 "New input (2026-06-03)"]] section). ## Notes The Tier-1 confirmation that David Thomas is a Wilson Sonsini attorney (alongside [[Michael Montfort]] at `[email protected]`) answers, for *his* role, the [[D005 Synthesis|D005]] "rate-limiting fact": he is **outside formation/transaction counsel serving as a nominee signatory**, not an in-house principal. This **vindicates restraint** on naming Thomas/Montfort as principals and does **not** identify the beneficial principal of the Conway/Port shells — so it does not un-bracket [[T003 - Shell-LLC Principal Attribution for Forgelight and Willowbend|T003]] (consistent with [[D006 Synthesis]]). Whether he holds the same role for [[GDH Holdings Inc.]] or the other shells beyond what the registry shows is not established.