Enterprise Principals
The two convicted felons who control every position of power across the enterprise.
Brian Banks — 9 convictions (6 felony, 3 misdemeanor), fake J.D., superintendent of two charter schools receiving $4.9M+ in annual public funding. His management company takes 72.67% of all revenue. His biological father is BMF Defendant #22.
Joseph Holland Jr — convicted drug offender (MDOC #443789), discharged “WITHOUT IMPROVEMENT.” Holds every financial oversight position: Purpose Foundation Secretary + Treasurer, Bank on Banks PAC Treasurer, Banks Living Trust 1st Successor Trustee.
They share a residential address in Grosse Pointe Woods, MI. Together they hold all officer positions across every entity in the network. No independent governance. No independent financial oversight. Two felons, total control.
| Who | Convictions | Role | Key Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brian Roderick Banks | 9 (6 felony) | Enterprise leader, superintendent | ICHAT SID 2029469K |
| Joseph Holland Jr | 1 (drug possession) | Financial gatekeeper | MDOC #443789 |
Jim Proppe Former Managing Partner, Plante Moran (2017-2024). Drake's predecessor. Set the culture and team that employed Beasley. Kimber Smail Southfield Office Managing Partner, Plante Moran (July 2024-). Formerly Flint MP. Ahmed Beasley is based in the Southfield office. Alexey Pajitnov Born 1956, Moscow. Created Tetris in 1985 at the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The USSR owned the rights. He received nothing until 1996 when he co-founded The Tetris Company. A man who created the most Charles Darwin 1809-1882. On the Origin of Species (1859). Waited 20 years to publish because he knew the world would hate it. Published anyway. The courage to tell the truth when the truth is unwelcome. David T. Doyle Chief Compliance Officer, Plante Moran Financial Advisors. 248-223-3611. dave.doyle@plantemoran.com (confirmed SEC Form ADV). Ethics code enforcement. Dennis Graham Group Managing Partner, Plante Moran. Management consulting and international offices. PMR falls under consulting. Donald Trump 45th/47th President. Appointed DeVos as Education Secretary. Education policy: school choice, charter expansion. Detroit ties: hosted by Kwame, campaign events. Donna Hanson Group Managing Partner, Plante Moran. Nonprofit and public sector industries. Oversees the practice area that touches charter schools and K-12 public sector. Elizabeth Magie 1866-1948. Created The Landlord's Game (1903) to teach the evils of monopolies. Charles Darrow copied it, sold it to Parker Brothers, became a millionaire. Magie got $500 and no credit. The game about Emmy Noether 1882-1935. Noether's theorem: every symmetry has a conservation law. Einstein called her the most important woman in the history of mathematics. Denied a paid position for years because she was a woma Erno Rubik Born 1944, Budapest. Architecture professor. Created the Rubik's Cube (1974) to help students understand 3D spatial relationships. 'I did not plan to make the Cube a toy.' 450M+ sold. Group theory, pe Gary Gygax 1938-2008. Co-created Dungeons & Dragons (1974). Insurance underwriter from Lake Geneva, WI. Invented an entire genre of play. Lost control of TSR. Spent his last years playing D&D in his basement wit Gary Naeyaert Executive Director, Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP). DeVos's point man on Michigan charter school policy. 'We're proponents of all forms of choice.' Gordon Krater CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, Barton Malow. FORMER MANAGING PARTNER of Plante Moran (8 years). 40+ years at Plante Moran. UMich Ross School BBA. 'My experiences at Plante Moran led to my being asked to join Henrietta Lacks 1920-1951. Her HeLa cells — taken without consent — became the foundation of modern cell biology. Polio vaccine, cancer research, gene mapping. Her family received nothing for decades. The most famous Jennifer Chambers Partner, Plante Moran. Former K-12 Education Practice Leader (before July 2025). Still serves K-12 and real estate clients. Preceded Matthew Kelly. Jennifer Crump MacDowell board. DPSCD. Crump surname dynasty — Jehan, V. Hall, Jennifer. John McCarroll Senior Vice President, Plante Moran Realpoint. Promoted to SVP in 2024 same cycle as Ahmed Beasley. Jonas Salk 1914-1995. Developed the polio vaccine. Refused to patent it. 'Could you patent the sun?' Saved millions of lives. The anti-enclosure. The standard every pharmaceutical company violates. Katherine Johnson 1918-2020. NASA mathematician. Calculated trajectories for Mercury, Apollo 11. Black woman in segregated Virginia doing orbital mechanics by hand. The computers were human. The humans were women. The Mae C. Jemison Born 1956. First Black woman in space (STS-47, 1992). Chemical engineer, physician, Peace Corps, NASA. From Chicago. Proof that public education works when it works. Proof of what 97% math failure ste Markus 'Notch' Persson Born 1979, Stockholm. Created Minecraft alone. Sold to Microsoft for $2.5B. Then said the money made him miserable. 'The problem with getting everything is you run out of reasons to keep trying.' Crea Matthew Kelly Partner, Plante Moran. K-12 Education Practice Leader (July 2025-). Kalamazoo office MP. CPA. Leads 200+ educational institution clients. Succeeds Jennifer Chambers. Nathan Buchalski Group Managing Partner, Plante Moran. Illinois and Michigan offices. Oversees the offices where Beasley and PMR K-12 are based. Neil deGrasse Tyson Born 1958. Astrophysicist. Hayden Planetarium. Bronx public schools -> Harvard -> Columbia PhD. Science communicator. The proof that a kid from the Bronx can understand the universe if you teach him. Nicole Blocker Plante Moran Realpoint. Listed on K-12 capital project consulting page alongside Theriault, Wills, VanKirk. Part of Beasley's K-12 team. Richard Garfield Born 1963. Mathematics PhD (University of Pennsylvania). Created Magic: The Gathering (1993). Combinatorics professor who designed a Turing-complete card game. Also created RoboRally, King of Tokyo, K Ron Zuhorski Senior Vice President, Plante Moran Realpoint. Promoted to SVP in 2024 same cycle as Ahmed Beasley. Rosalind Franklin 1920-1958. X-ray crystallographer. Photo 51 proved DNA's double helix. Watson and Crick used her data without credit. Died at 37 of ovarian cancer. Nobel went to the men. The most famous uncredited di Scott Smith (PMR) Senior Vice President, Plante Moran Realpoint. K-12 bond programs. $400M+ in K-12 bonds. Michigan Tech. LEED AP. Promoted to SVP in 2024 same cycle as Ahmed Beasley. Srinivasa Ramanujan 1887-1920. Self-taught mathematical genius from Madras. 3,900 results, nearly all proven correct. Died at 32. No formal training. The proof that genius does not require institutions — institutions req Tawanesha Jones-Williams Senior Vice President, Plante Moran Realpoint. Promoted to SVP in 2024 same cycle as Ahmed Beasley. Tim Berners-Lee Born 1955. Invented the World Wide Web at CERN (1989). Gave it away for free. Could have been the richest person alive. Chose the commons. Now fights to save the open web from the corporations that en Tony Sorgi Senior Vice President, Plante Moran Realpoint. Promoted to SVP in 2024 same cycle as Ahmed Beasley. W. Alan Wilk Chief Justice Megan K. Cavanagh MI Supreme Court Chief Justice (since 2019, CJ since Apr 2025). UMich Engineering + Wayne State Law. LIAISON TO AGC AND JTC. Former AGC member. Former SBM Appellate Practice Section Chair. She is the Chris Nelson Chief Legal and Risk Officer, Plante Moran. Southfield. MSU BA, Washington U St. Louis JD. MI Bar. Oversees firm's legal affairs and regulatory risk strategies. Nearly 30 years experience. The person Corey Northrop Executive Director, Governor John Engler Center for Charter Schools at CMU. Since March 2019. Former MCCSA Board Chair. MAPSA Board member. FORMER CPA AT PLANTE MORAN — same firm where Beasley's husba DaSean Mitchell Student. Kevin Mok's son. Pro se in Wayne County 26-108221-DC (custody). Banks impersonated a child on the phone when DaSean called PCA. The reason this all matters: a child was harmed. Dick DeVos Amway heir. Ran for MI Governor 2006 (lost). Betsy's husband. DeVos family: largest charter school funder in Michigan. Amway/Alticor. Dr. Chalena Beasley PCA School Leader (principal). Ph.D. Educational Leadership, Wayne State. Cass Tech alum. Former principal Bunche Preparatory Academy. BEASLEY surname — same as Ahmed Beasley (Plante Moran SVP). Is th Dr. Chalena Yancey Beasley Founding School Leader, PCA. PhD Wayne State ELPS 2023. 29yr DPSCD veteran. Principal Bunche Prep. NBCT. BS WMU, MA Marygrove, PhD Wayne State. Sister of Judge Tenisha Yancey. Husband Ahmed Beasley. M Dr. Glenn Maleyko MI Superintendent of Public Instruction (Dec 2025). SBE Chair. PhD Wayne State ELPS (same dept as Beasley/Hill). Former Dearborn Supt. Dr. Jolia Hill Director, EMU Charter Schools Office. Terminated DPSA charter Jun 30, 2026. MCCSA Treasurer. Glenn J. Page JTC Interim ED (Feb 2026). Returned from retirement. Former Wayne County asst prosecutor. Bar 1980. Gov. John Engler Michigan Governor 1991-2003. Signed charter school law (PA 362) Jan 14, 1994. Republican. Proposed charter schools Oct 5, 1993 in joint session speech. His law created the framework that CMU, PCA, and Greg VanKirk Partner, Plante Moran Realpoint. CPA. Leads corporate real estate and public sector program management. MSU. At PM since 1992. K-12 capital project consulting. Clients include Wayne County, Bloomfield Gregory Meihn Gunpei Yokoi 1941-1997. Nintendo. Invented the D-pad, Game & Watch, Game Boy, Virtual Boy. 'Lateral thinking with withered technology.' Died in a roadside accident at age 56. The man who put gaming in every pocket Henri O. Harmon GLLG Partner — MSU Law BLSA President Jefferey Bailey Director, General Counsel, Plante Moran. Denver Tech Center. Former Special Counsel to PCAOB Chairman. GW Law magna cum laude. BYU. 20+ years professional services. Advises firm on ethics, regulatory John B. Goodenough 1922-2023. Nobel Prize 2019 at age 97 — oldest Nobel laureate ever. Co-invented the lithium-ion battery at Oxford. Every phone, laptop, EV, and grid battery uses his work. He never got rich from it. O Lisa Moreland AAG → PCA Board Director Judge Cylenthia Miller Misha Stallworth West DPSCD Board + CitizenDetroit Director Paul Theriault Partner, Plante Moran Realpoint. PE, LEED AP. Leads $5B+ in K-12 capital projects. 50+ staff. 25 years. Ahmed Beasley's division partner. Speaks at K-12 school board meetings on market conditions, cap Paul Wills Partner, Plante Moran Realpoint. AIA, LEED AP, NCARB. Licensed architect. Lawrence Tech (SAME SCHOOL as Ahmed Beasley). 25+ years. $5B+ in capital projects. 600+ facilities. Romy Drucker Education Program Director, Walton Family Foundation. FOUNDED The 74 media outlet in 2015. Yale BA, Harvard MBA. Former NYC DOE. WFF funds charter advocacy -> WFF director founded the media outlet tha Satoshi Tajiri Born 1965, Tokyo. Created Pokemon (1996). Inspired by childhood insect collecting in the rice paddies near Tokyo — before urbanization paved them over. Autistic. Spent 6 years making the first game. N Sheriff Raphael Washington Wayne County Sheriff. Appointed 2021, reelected 2024 (69% vote). Shigeru Miyamoto Born 1952, Kyoto. Created Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Star Fox, Pikmin. The most important video game designer in history. Still at Nintendo. Industrial design degree from Kanazawa Munici. Wanted to be Dr. Nikolai Vitti Judge Tenisha Yancey Albert Einstein 1879-1955. Patent clerk who rewrote physics. Special relativity, general relativity, photoelectric effect, Brownian motion. Refused to work on the atomic bomb after signing the letter. Gave his brain Betsy DeVos Former Education Secretary, AFC chair Bill Lichwalla PRESIDENT & CEO of Plante Moran Realpoint (since 2005). Partner, Plante Moran. MSU Eli Broad College 1991-1995. CPA. Michigan real estate broker. $6B+ in projects annually. 125+ staff in 8 states. Boa Jason Drake Managing Partner, Plante Moran (July 2024-). CPA, CGMA. MSU Accounting. Crain's Notable Leader 2026. 8th managing partner. 4,000+ staff globally. $1B+ firm. The top of the chain. Jehan Crump-Gibson Attorney representing Brian Banks (9 felony convictions) in custody case 26-108221-DC. ADB Hearing Panelist — sits on the body that disciplines attorneys while representing a 9-time felon at K-12 scho Kwame Kilpatrick Mayor 2002-2008 Kym L. Worthy Wayne County Prosecutor since 2004. Term through Jan 1, 2029. Championed rape kit testing (thousands of kits found 2009, hundreds of convictions). The county prosecutor with jurisdiction over PCA and Leonard C. 'Len' Wolfe Mayor Mary Sheffield Mayor Michael V. Goetz AGC Grievance Administrator (Sep 2019). Former Senior AAG, Criminal Div Drug Interdiction. MSU 1983, DCL 1988. Ms. Perkins (PCA) Ms. Perkins. PCA front desk / receptionist. THE FRONT DOOR. She is the DECISION-MAKER for who has access to Banks and Beasley. She made it clear SHE decides who gets through. Oct 12 10:30 AM: told cal Renae Moore Compliance officer (Dykema) Richard D. McLellan Former Dykema partner (1982-2007, retired). Co-authored MI charter school law (PA 362). CO-FOUNDED Mackinac Center for Public Policy (1987) with Engler. Engler transition director (1990). McPherson Co Verkeydia Hall MacDowell Board Director. Licensed attorney. Crump maiden name — dynasty link to Jehan Crump-Gibson. Filed PPO against journalist. Crump Hall of Justice Law Firm (CHOJLF). MSU (crumpver@msu.edu). Todd AG Dana Nessel Michigan Attorney General. Democrat. AG office oversees Corporate Oversight Division (Fowler). AG office where Goetz (AGC) worked (Drug Interdiction Unit). AG office where Cameron (JTC Vice-Chair) man Brian Roderick Banks Dawn N. Ison, Esq. JTC Commissioner. Former AUSA Eastern District MI — PUBLIC CORRUPTION UNIT. 19 years as federal prosecutor. Spelman College, Wayne State Law. Daughter of Detroit, DPS graduate. On JTC since Jul 21, 20 Dennis Archer Mayor 1994-2001 Roland S. Martin Journalist, Black Star Network founder Cynthia C. Bullington AGC Asst Deputy Admin. At AGC since 1982 (44 yrs). MSU BA, GWU JD. Adjunct prof MSU Law — teaches Professional Responsibility. Character & Fitness Committee. Signed TWO return letters on Banks/Miller matters (Oct 1 + Oct 9, 2026). AGC File 26-2141. Joseph Holland Jr. Kevin Mok Complainant. Plaintiff in Ingham County 2026-4301-CZ and 2026-4349-CZ. Father of DaSean Mitchell. Discovered the network. Filed complaints with MDE, AGC, LARA, SBE, DPSCD OIG, US DOE OIG. Infantry vet ALJ Michael Rice Administrative Law Judge, SOAH. Presided over TCR 22-12. OVERRULED MDE and AG objections to Banks' certification. Relied on Shulman/Leno testimony. Aug 4, 2023 Final Decision. Later became State Super Brian Roderick Banks — Enterprise Leader Dr. Brian Banks, J.D., Ph.D. — 9 criminal convictions (6 felony). Pahara Fellow. State Bar of Michigan: zero results for claimed J.D. Superintendent of MacDowell Prep (3% math) and Purpose Charter Academy founder. It Had 2 Happen author. Joseph Holland Jr. — Financial Gatekeeper, Romantic Partner Joseph Holland Jr. Brian Banks' romantic partner. Convicted drug offender (MDOC #443789). Discharged WITHOUT IMPROVEMENT. Banks uses Holland for every financial gatekeeping role in the enterprise.