Jason is co-founder of Our Future, and the co-owner and Chair of Grimsby Town Football Club. He has been partnering with the community in his hometown Grimsby to try and build connections and inspire action. This has included co-owning the football club as a locus for the community activity, activating a network within and beyond Grimsby and partnering with Common Good Foundation to bring community organising to the town so that the community have power and agency in the future.
Jason is a serial tech entrepreneur having been in leadership roles at Simply Business, Match.com, Skyscanner and lastminute.com. He is currently an investor in over 30 early-stage tech businesses through his vehicle 53 Degrees Capital. In 2021 he was a Leadership Fellow at The Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University, on the UK board of B Corp; Chairman of the mental health and wellbeing start-up Sanctus.
In 2018 he wrote a book on the future of work called Reboot: A Blueprint for Happy, Human Business in the Digital Age and is a regular contributor in The Guardian writing about football and politics.