Dedicated Micros founder Mike Newton has been judged Britain’s top entrepreneur by leading business magazine Management Today, in association with RBS.

Newton, 44, heads up AD Holdings PLC, the parent company of Dedicated Micros, RemGuard Visual Management, and Dennard. He founded DM in 1982, and the company is now a global giant in the multi-channel digital video recorder market. In the year to June 2003, AD Holdings made £25.2m on £72.5m in sales.

“Michael Newton is set to be the first CCTV billionaire,” the judges said. “In 1985 he invented a multi-channel CCTV recorder, which was an instant hit. He didn’t listen when doubters said that remote viewing of CCTV over ISDN lines would not take off. That is now the fastest-growing part of his business.

“Newton makes Big brother work, and organisations such as the US government, BP Amoco and Heathrow airport like his products. Newton is determined to be number one in CCTV, overtaking American giant Honeywell.”

In April last year AD Holdings topped the Deloitte Indy 100 Awards for the UK’s fastest growing companies, with a compound growth rate of 170 per cent over the previous four years, which judges described as “extraordinary and sustained growth”.

Newton is also a long-term motor racing enthusiast and participant, having been involved in the sport as a driver since 1985. He has driven in the world famous Le Mans 24 Hour race, and finished in the top four of The champion of Oulton Formula Ford 1600 series from 1995 to 1997.

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