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Charles Patterson is the founder and president of Exec Security TSCM.
Technical Surveillance Countermeasures, or TSCM, is the work of providing electronic sweeps to detect, locate, and nullify unauthorized surveillance devices such as transmitters, recording devices, wiretaps, hidden cameras, or other eavesdropping devices and threats.

Charles began in the security field in 1978 working in executive protection and technical security services. His responsibilities included traveling on security details throughout the United States and over forty different countries as well as providing technical support for a number of security and surveillance operations. He gained extensive technical experience working with two-way radio, closed-circuit video, alarm systems, audio and telecom systems. During this time he often assisted electronic countermeasures technicians on sweeps of conference facilities and meeting rooms. In order to understand the field better, Charles enrolled in TSCM training offered by former government instructors, and in 1995 he started his own company providing full time Technical Surveillance Countermeasures services for Fortune 500 corporations and high net-worth individuals.

Charles works regularly with investigation firms throughout the US to help support their clients.
Examples of incidents resolved by the Exec Security TSCM team and Charles Patterson include finding hidden microphones, locating covert video cameras, discovering rogue access points on corporate wifi networks, detecting unauthorized audio transmissions from corporate conference rooms, resolving a number of telephone hacking incidents in telecom systems, and more.

“This is an event not to be missed because all members in good standing and all new members at the meeting will receive a newly designed Presidential SPI lapel pin.”