Jason Stockwood
Jason Stockwood is the chairman and co-owner of Grimsby Town Football Club. The Grimsby working-class lad managed to get a scholarship to study in the US, worked at Trailfinders and Lastminute.com in the 1990s. He was a non-executive director of Skyscanner and international MD at Travelocity Business and also at Match.com. In 2010, he became the CEO and vice-chair of online insurance company, Simply Business, that was sold for £400m in 2017.The co-founder of VC 53° has also invested in British startups across market segments, including the Series B investment round of food-sharing app OLIO in September 2021 and August 2020 financing of carbon tracking platform for banks and investors CoGo UK.
