Charles Fairclough in the Far East (2018)
Charles Fairclough is an IT and operations director and heads up IT at Faire Sans Dire, a niche global intelligence organisation. He is also the IT director for various other organisations and companies including The Burlington Files group including Faire Sans Dire Limited (Company No. 06552657).
In his school days, Charles was involved with a variety of IT and web related businesses. It was when he was at Glyn School in Epsom in his early teens that he started his first IT business selling password recovery programs (which he wrote). Before going to Portsmouth University, he garnered expertise in more complex IT areas such as creating custom remote administration tools, undertaking software exploit development and research, carrying out remote system penetration testing and performing virus/worm analysis.
In 2006 Charles secured a place in Portsmouth University but decided to leave after a couple of years despite having been assured of two firsts in both Bsc Digital Media and Bsc Computing. He entered e-commerce instead of starting his third year in academia and graduating later.
Since then Charles has been the founder or co-founder of several e-commerce businesses as well as heading up IT at Faire Sans Dire from 2008 (and being appointed IT Director of Faire Sans Dire Limited in April 2008). One of the businesses he founded, Profile Tunnel Limited, was effectively taken over by Faire Sans Dire in 2012. In a nutshell, Profile Tunnel Limited provided cutting edge technologies which enabled Faire Sans Dire to gather intelligence from cyberspace in innovative ways when undertaking covert assignments.
In 2012 Charles was seconded from Faire Sans Dire to work with Kroll Ontrack, one of its competitors. In order to avoid conflicts of interest, Charles resigned his directorship in Faire Sans Dire Limited from January 2013 until February 2016 when he was re-appointed.
Charles has considerable experience in cyber security and intelligence activities as well as e-commerce at large. As the head of IT at Faire Sans Dire, Charles’ responsibilities extend to the provision of all cyberspace, website and communications security services and counter intelligence activities as well as the day to day management of the organisation’s operations.
Charles features as the director of Faire Sans Dire in the Epilogue to Beyond Enkription, the first published novel in The Burlington Files series of novels, written for film adaptation, in which Edward Burlington is the main protagonist. The Burlington Files series is based on the life of Charles' father, Bill Fairclough, aka Edward Burlington, who founded Faire Sans Dire in 1978.
Citations
Cited 01 - Charles Fairclough's directorships. http://bit.ly/CPRFAppointments
Cited 02 - Charles Fairclough's personal website which includes details of his entrepreneurial activities. https://charlesfairclough.com
Cited 03 - UK Companies House records of The Burlington Files Limited and its subsidiary companies. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/08005044
Cited 04 - UK Companies House records of Faire Sans Dire Limited. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06552657
Cited 05 - Faire Sans Dire's website with details of companies named Faire Sans Dire Limited. https://www.fairesansdire.org/about-us/index.php
Cited 06 - Profile Tunnel Limited (Company number 07171940), now Enkription Limited. https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/07171940
References
Cited 02 - Charles Fairclough's personal website which includes details of his entrepreneurial activities.
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Cited 03 - UK Companies House records of The Burlington Files Limited and its subsidiary companies.
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Cited 04 - UK Companies House records of Faire Sans Dire Limited.
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Cited 05 - Faire Sans Dire's website with details of companies named Faire Sans Dire Limited.
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Cited 06 - Profile Tunnel Limited (Company number 07171940), now Enkription Limited.
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Cited 07 - Charles Fairclough's directorships.
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