Jason Stockwood, Baron Stockwood
English businessman
Jason Stockwood, Baron Stockwood (born July 1970) is an English businessman and life peer who is joint majority shareholder and former chairman of Grimsby Town F.C.
Having graduated with a Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil), he moved into the travel business and has previously held roles as the managing director of Travelocity, non-executive of Skyscanner and commercial roles with lastminute.com. He is also the former international managing director of dating website Match.com. In 2010 he joined Simply Business, a tech start up in financial services where he was group CEO.
He was the Labour Party candidate for the 2025 Greater Lincolnshire mayoral election. In September 2025, he was appointed to the British government as Minister of State for Investment, jointly serving in the Department of Business and Trade and HM Treasury. As it is convention that all ministers sit in one of the two Houses of Parliament, he received a life peerage to sit in the House of Lords.
Early life
Stockwood was born in Grimsby and attended Tollbar Academy in the village of New Waltham, near Grimsby. Stockwood comes from a working class family; his mother was a single parent who worked three jobs to keep four sons clothed and fed. Aged 15, he worked as a waiter at the Winter Gardens in Cleethorpes and worked on Grimsby docks for a few months. After leaving school, Stockwood went on a kibbutz in Israel, he went on to work at Walt Disney World in Florida and as a holiday rep in Greece, before studying full-time in 1992 at University in Bolton.
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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