100 Entrepreneurs Who Changed The World
64. Michael Newton (1960- )
“I have been known to say my business is not a democracy, but I wouldn’t go so far as to call myself a dictator”
Michael Newton is a British entrepreneur and race car driver. He is revolutionized closed circuit telelvision (CCTV) and transformed England in the process. He started with a system that monitored how long a person sat at a restaurant table. Soon he introduced a line of multi-channel CCTV system that able to view multiple locations, viewable from a broad range of places, all at once. Today, over seven million images are recorded a second using his technology. It is implemented as private security and used in public areas in Great Britain. Newton made a fortune, which he used to found his new company AD Aviation.
