Jason Stockwood is the former international managing director of dating website Match.
14 Facts About Jason Stockwood
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Jason Stockwood is the Labour Party candidate for the 2025 Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election.
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Jason Stockwood comes from a working class family; his mother was a single parent who worked three jobs to keep four sons clothed and fed.
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Jason Stockwood is a lifelong supporter of his home town football club Grimsby Town; in 1979 he attended his first game against Sheffield Wednesday.
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Jason Stockwood was a ballboy in November 1984 for The Mariners at Blundell Park in a fixture against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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Jason Stockwood graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of Bolton in 1995.
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In 2010, Jason Stockwood became CEO and then vice-chairman of Simply Business.
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Simply Business was voted as the number one 'Best Place to Work' in the UK by The Sunday Times in both 2015 and 2016, with Jason Stockwood winning the overall Best Leader award in the latter year.
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Jason Stockwood is an investor in early stage technology companies through 53 Degrees Capital.
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Jason Stockwood is a 2023 Fellow of Practice at the Government Outcomes Lab, at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University.
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Jason Stockwood was announced as part of a consortium, led by London businessman Tom Shutes, which was interested in buying out John Fenty's majority control of Grimsby Town.
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Jason Stockwood wrote an article in The Guardian detailing why.
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Jason Stockwood swapped with Andrew Petit as the chairman of Grimsby Town in May 2024, after both shareholders said they would share the position.
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Jason Stockwood was selected as the Labour candidate for the 2025 election for the inaugural mayor of Greater Lincolnshire.