Mike Newton
Chief Executive Officer – NetVu Holdings Ltd
Chief Technology Officer – NetVu Ltd
Chief Technology Officer – Dedicated Micros Inc
Mike Newton has been a lead innovator and industry pioneer in the CCTV industry from 1984, since graduating from Manchester University with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science.
Cited in the top 20 most influential entrepreneurs of all time in a US report, he is NetVu Ltd’s creative technical force, envisioning new concepts and solutions for the security and fire detection industries. Since founding Dedicated Micros in 1982, Mike has repeatedly applied his technical and entrepreneurial skills to an ever changing market where innovation is essential to success.
Amongst Mike’s many accomplishments are bringing to market the world’s first CCTV video multiplexer, the first viable digital recorder and video server, and the only inherently secure IP video system on the market with innovative video analytics, including the detection of Fire with video cameras in environments where no other detection method is possible.
Mike is now one of the founding Directors and owners of NetVu Holdings, building on the previous the success of Dedicated Micros as its founder and owner. Over the course of his career Mike continues to gain tremendous insights and understanding of many industries that are of key importance today to NetVu including Aerospace, motorsport engineering and engine development.
In his spare time Mike established a career in motorsport where along side the RML race team he took first in the LMP2 class at Le Mans 24 Hours in both 2005 and 2006 followed by another podium at Le Mans in 2010, the year the team took the Le Mans Series LMP2 title, as well as previously in 2007. Mike continues to develop his motorsport and engineering businesses in addition to his CCTV related activities.