Tim Cash

President of Executive Solutions Worldwide

Timothy Cash has over a decade of experience in providing security and investigative solutions to a variety of clients. After graduating from high school Tim joined the military. He returned home and entered law enforcement where he attended various courses with a focus on special operations and community relations.

After five years, Tim gave into his desire to be an entrepreneur and started his first company providing personal security. He went on to complete contracts with the newly formed Transportation Security Administration as a Master Instructor in checked baggage screening.  He supervised 25 instructors and assisted in the training of over 25,000 TSA Screeners.

In 2004, Tim deployed to Baghdad in support of the war on terror. He was assigned to the US Ambassador’s Protection Detail at the US Embassy in Iraq. Tim quickly rose threw the ranks serving as a tactical commander, shift leader, and finally senior detail leader over all of Central Iraq with roughly 320 personal protection specialist working with him.

Upon returning home, Tim identified a deficiency in the training of private security and aligned himself with Seminole Community College to offer training at their facilities. Tim created several courses designed to create maximum effectiveness using a minimum training budget.

In 2008, Tim returned to the operations side of the house and Executive Solutions Worldwide (ESW) was born. ESW was created to provide high-end investigative and protective solutions to discerning clients. Based in South Florida ESW has quickly developed a solid client base with global connections.

Tim has authored several articles in trade publications and has spoken at regional meetings for the Florida Association of Licensed Investigators and the American Society of Industrial Security Specialists. He holds instructor credentials in several disciplines and is a State of Florida licensed firearms and security instructor. He is a member of the Florida SWAT Association, International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors, National Tactical Officer’s Association, Florida Association of Licensed Investigators, National Rifle Association, and the American Society of Industrial Security Specialists.

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“One of the proudest moments of my life was protecting Ambassador John Negroponte during the first free election in Iraq. It was inspiring to see Iraqi’s come up to him with their finger dipped in ink showing that they had stood up to tyranny and voted their free will!”

-Tim Cash

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Alejandro "Alex" Ferrer

Executive Vice President of Operations

Alex attended school in Orlando and after graduation began working with Westinghouse Power Corporation. He maintained current training materials and assisted in the creation of upgraded processes for training new hires.

In 1994, Alex embarked on a career in law enforcement. He joined the Orange County Sheriff’s Office where he was assigned to the South Orange Blossom Trail an area known for violence and crime.

In 1997, transferred to the Special Investigations Division (SID). As an Agent in SID, Alex has conducted hundreds of investigations, interviews, and technical surveillances. He has also functioned as an undercover operative and assisted the United States Secret Service in successfully breaking up a counterfeit operation.

In addition to his regular duties Alex joined the Agency’s Emergency Response Team. This specialized unit was tasked with response to civil unrest and provides mobile field force options. Alex applied for and was granted a position as a grenadier. As a grenadier, Alex became an expert in the delivery of less lethal munitions. He has been part of the Agency’s contingent during Presidential visits and during the World Bank unrest.

Alex is a certified firearms, stress awareness, chemical munitions, less lethal, and human diversity instructor.He has received hundreds of hours of instruction in Hazardous Materials, Chemicals, Terrorism Response, Human Diversity, Stress Awareness, and Dignitary Protection.

In 2008, Alex retired from the Sheriff’s Office and joined the Executive Solutions family. Alex serves as the Executive Vice President of Operations and oversees all of ESW’s surveillance operations. Being fluent in Spanish, Alex also serves as a liason with the growing Latin American population.

He can be reached at aferrer@execsol.com

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Chad Burke

Chad Burke is a former Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who, after leaving the department, spent time working in the Gulf of Mexico as a commercial diver before joining security details in  Bosnia and Iraq.

As a commercial “hard-hat” diver, Chad worked on the natural gas pipeline from Mobile, Alabama to Tampa, Florida. He has extensive experience working on oil rigs and various other oil transfer platforms. He made daily inspections of the lines used to transfer crude oil from vessels to the United States ensuring the safety of both personnel and the environment. He is a certified dive medic and hyperbaric chamber operator.

After time spent as a member of Personal Security Details in Basra, Iraq conducting the protection of Department of Defense personnel, Chad was assigned to Ambassador Negroponte’s personal security detail in Baghdad in 2004.

Afterwards, Chad was assigned to protect personnel from The US Department of Justice’s Regime Crimes Liaison’s Office (RCLO).  The team, led by Florida prosecutor Greg Kehoe and Regime Crimes Liaison Christopher Reid included Anne Tompkins, federal prosecutor of the Charlotte, NC US attorney’s office.  He and his detail provided security for the investigating team while it traveled Iraq and Kurdistan advising the Iraqi special tribunal and investigating the Anfal campaign in preparation for Saddam Hussein’s prosecution.

In February 2006 he was a member of an experimental protection team.  The Department of State expressed a desire for experienced close-protection personnel to man a low-profile protection detail to transport and protect DOS personnel in Baghdad.  This unconventional team needed to work without the same protection and support of conventional teams running in Baghdad at the time.  Chad was a core member and instrumental in developing and improving the procedures as a team leader until the summer of 2008.

Since 2009 Chad has held the responsibility of operating protection teams supporting another DOS contract.  Due to the loss of support following withdraw of the US military, new assets and relationships needed to be located and developed with the local military and intelligence communities.  Chad took advantage of his previous experience in Kurdistan and spear-headed this responsibility for his detail.  Those relationships continue to this day.

Chad heads up the North Carolina Branch for Executive Solutions where he provides uniform and plain clothed protection solutions to a global clientele.

Justin Spence

Justin Spence brings his training and experience to work for clients of Executive Solutions
through his unique skill sets aquired from years in public sector law enforcement as well as his time with the Deployable Operations Group of the US Coast Guard/Department of Homeland Security.

After obtaining higher education in Orlando, Florida, Justin began his career in personal
protection studying various disciplines such as protective detail operations and delving into the world of canine detection operations. He soon began working as an advance team operative for various large scale protective operations conducting route analysis and explosives detection sweeps of sensitive areas.

Wanting to obtain further experience, he enlisted in public sector law enforcement, attending the basic academy in Orlando and soon moving on to Duval County, Florida where he worked as a patrol officer. He then traveled South to Hendry County where he worked as a first-line supervisor, Rescue/Recovery Dive Team Member, and Investigator for a Federal level child exploitation task force where he was recognized nationally by the Attorney General for his work.

In 2005 Justin enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and moved swiftly through the ranks, joining the elite Deployable Operations Group and Tactical Law Enforcement Team. There he obtained his skills in Port Security, Maritime Law Enforcement, and Tactical Emergency Medicine. Justin is a Florida and Nationally certified Emergency Medical Technicican with a specialty in Tactical Medicine.

Justin holds Instructor certifications in the following disciplines: General Law Enforcement, CPR/ AED, Shoothouse, SIMUNITIONS, Chemical Aerosal Weapons, and Flying While Armed.

Justin holds advanced certification in the following disciplines: Tactical Medical Operator,
Rescue/Recovery Diver with Blackwater specialty, Explosives Detection Canine Handler, and
Explosives Counter-Measures.