THE BURLINGTON FILES LIMITED - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Non - Executive Chairman
• Owner
• Member of the Anti Corruption Research Network at Transparency International
• Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
• Non - Executive Chairman and Founder of Faire Sans Dire Limited

Bill Fairclough is the Non-Executive Chairman and founder of Faire Sans Dire Limited. His background is summarily explained later. He established the Company to provide services to help not only businesses and organisations but also individuals. Basically the Company provides investigative and related services in which Bill, his colleagues and associates have a wealth of experience and take both pleasure and pride in delivering. Those services encompass normal business services (such as background checks on individuals or organizations) and services relating to dealing with some aspects of crime (such as finding the culprits and recovering the proceeds of their crimes). Bill Fairclough is the Non-Executive Chairman and owner of the Company. In the UK there have been three companies called Faire Sans Dire all of which were at least initially owned outright by Bill Fairclough (our current owner and Non-Executive Chairman): 1. On 8th September 1995 a company (No. 03100131) was registered under that name for name protection purposes but it never traded and was dissolved on 24th June 1997. Bill Fairclough was the original owner and he and Barrie Parkes MBE were the founding directors. 2. On 21st July 1999 another company (No. 03810916) was registered under that name. Bill Fairclough was the original owner and founding director. It remained dormant until it changed its name to Faire Sans Risque Limited on 16th June 2000 and from then on was engaged in statistical arbitrage business. After its change of name this company never had anything to do with Faire Sans Dire and was dissolved on 20th December 2005. One of its directors was at the time the Deputy Chairman and Head of Enforcement of the UK's Financial Services Authority. Bill Fairclough has owned Faire Sans Dire since it was inaugurated as an organisation in 1978; its activities and operations were run by specialists in their particular fields in its formative years. Faire Sans Dire Limited (the current company) commenced trading on 1st October 2009. Another company (No. 08005044) called The Burlington Files Limited is connected to Faire Sans Dire Limited. It is a publishing company for undisclosed principals for whom Faire Sans Dire Limited acts as agent. Bill Fairclough owns the majority of its shares and is its Chairman. The Burlington Files Limited commenced trading on 15th January 2013. More information about The Burlington Files Group can be found at its website. Bill Fairclough is a member of the Anti Corruption Research Network at Transparency International. He retired from being a Chartered Accountant in January 2016 having been such for over 40 years. Set out below is a brief summary of his career. More detailed information about Bill is available from this Wiki web-link and from web-searches of both him and businesses he has been involved with etc. However, please note that he has been called by many names in the past including simple variations of his full name. He started work with Cooper Brothers and subsequently helped form/integrate Coopers & Lybrand acting as the first Secretary to its International Executive Committee and reporting to the head of the global firm. At the time Bill was at Coopers it was one of the "Big Four". It was during his stint with Coopers & Lybrand that Faire Sans Dire was inaugurated in 1978. For the record his continuing ownership of Faire Sans Dire since then has never conflicted with his duties or contractual arrangements with Coopers or any other businesses (such as the Citicorp, Reuters or Barclays Groups) where he was later to become a Director. After working with Coopers & Lybrand for about fourteen years he entered commerce. Whether acting as a Non-Executive Director, Finance Director, Operations Director, CEO/MD or Chairman he has been a Director of several highly successful well known businesses (such as Mercantile Credit, Reuters' Instinet International {which was later acquired by NASDAQ}, Barclays Financial Services and Barclays Stockbrokers). He was also a Director of Barclays Holdings and Ebbgate Holdings where he was a Group Senior Executive of the Barclays Bank and BZW Groups respectively and a founding director of Instinet Holdings. Please note that although Bill held many board positions at Barclays since 1987 those were all held long before Barclays became embroiled in mis-selling, interest rate fixing and other scandals. Those parts of the Barclays Group which were later to become centres of duplicity and dishonesty many years after Bill left the Group in 1999 never directly fell under his chain of command in his latter years at the Group. Bill Fairclough has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales for over 40 years and resigned in January 2016. He was also a member of both The Chartered Institute for Securities & Investments and The Association of Corporate Treasurers for over 20 years although he no longer specialises in treasury or security instruments and/or businesses. During his career he has been registered, inter alia, as a Director in banks and other financial services businesses regulated by the FSA, ICAEW, SFA, IMRO, PIA, the Bank of England, MOF (Japan), SEC (USA) and the SEC (Hong Kong). Since Bill joined Cooper Brothers in 1969 he has been involved in preventing, pre-empting or investigating fraud, crime and malpractice. No matter what capacity he was working in, throughout his career the prevention and detection of fraud were integral parts of his responsibilities. When employed by Coopers & Lybrand in their Technical Department he wrote their flagship publication at the time, the Manual of Auditing, as well as other publications covering crime and fraud related topics such as guides to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and US Anti-Boycott legislation. Since founding Faire Sans Dire in 1978 Bill has accumulated a wealth of international experience in conducting covert activities for governmental bodies and undertaking due diligence and investigations covering the pre-emption and/or detection of malpractice, crime and fraud. He has been commended for his work in these arenas by both senior regulators and high ranking law enforcement officers across the globe. Further details of Bill Fairclough's background are available on LinkedIn. Details of Bill's connections are not published on his LinkedIn profile. The Company also features on LinkedIn.

Job Titles:

• IT Director of Faire Sans Dire

Charles Peter Richard Fairclough was reappointed Faire Sans Dire's IT Director with effect from February 2016. Previously, he had been Faire Sans Dire's IT Director from December 2009 until January 2013 when he had to resign voluntarily in order to avoid conflicts of interest. Charles has been involved with a variety of IT and web related businesses since his school days when he started his first IT business selling password recovery programs (which he wrote). He attended Portsmouth University and despite having been assured of two firsts in both Bsc Digital Media and Bsc Computing decided to leave the academic world. He entered commerce instead. Since then Charles has been the founding director of two ecommerce businesses one of which, Profile Tunnel Ltd, was effectively taken over by Faire Sans Dire in 2012. Profile Tunnel provided Faire Sans Dire with intelligence from cyberspace when undertaking assignments. Charles has considerable experience in cyber security and intelligence activities as well as ecommerce at large. In 2012 whilst IT Director at Faire Sans Dire he was seconded for several months to work with a competitor, Kroll Ontrack, which specialises in data recovery, computer forensic and e-disclosure services. As the IT Director of Faire Sans Dire, Charles is responsible for the provision of all cyberspace, website and communications security services and counter intelligence activities as well as being responsible for the day to day management of the organisation's operations. He also coordinates all IT related aspects of the intelligence services Faire Sans Dire provides.

You may contact us here, via Twitter @FaireSansDire or on LinkedIn. Privacy Policy & Legal Notice Copyright © Faire Sans Dire Limited 2016 - All Rights Reserved. Faire Sans Dire Limited is a company incorporated in England and Wales (Registered Number 06552657) whose registered office is at 13 Park Hill Road Wallington Surrey SM6 0SD England. Faire Sans Dire is a niche UK based intelligence and investigatory risk management organisation with global reach and global clout. We have been providing intelligence, anti-corruption, investigatory and related risk management services since 1978 when Faire Sans Dire was established. However, it was not until 2010 that Faire Sans Dire opened its doors to the world at large via this web-site. In 1978 an intelligence gathering organisation called Faire Sans Dire was created; its owner was Bill Fairclough. It mainly undertook or coordinated international investigations through its associates up until 1995 when Faire Sans Dire was transformed into a "virtual" international confederation to help combat the globalisation of crime. Faire Sans Dire just happened to be Bill's family motto. When translated it means "To do without speaking" and effectively means "It'll be done so there's nothing else to say". As explained below it was most apt under the circumstances. Faire Sans Dire operated from a virtual hub in cyberspace and even though Radio Caroline featured conceptually in the establishment of Faire Sans Dire no boat such as the Mi Amigo which was used by Radio Caroline was actually deployed. Faire Sans Dire facilitated data exchanges between senior officers in law enforcement authorities in different countries many of which are now described as G20 countries. Prior to 9/11 many governments' practices impeded the passing from one country to another of even low level restricted information relating to cross border criminal activities. Most of that information is now no longer classified or restricted in the way it used to be in order to combat terrorism. Faire Sans Dire provided an avenue for its members to make requests for such information on a non-attributable basis. Members were not permitted to know who the other members were and all contact between members was conducted anonymously via the hub.