A well-known figure from the Manchester tech scene has been banned as a company director until 2033.
Jack Mason is a former CEO of Dreamr, which he co-founded with Mylo Kaye. The app developer went insolvent in 2019 owing hundreds of thousands of pounds to HMRC.
Mason subsequently co-founded Inc & Co, a disparate collective of digital businesses, with Scott Dylan and David Antrobus.
In 2021, Mason directed eight companies to move more than £12 million through unauthorised Barclays bank overdrafts to companies controlled by Dylan and Antrobus: FT (OPS) Limited, now known as Oldcoft Ltd, Fresh Thinking Group Limited, and others.
Mason failed in his duties as director to prevent those unauthorised overdrafts, the Insolvency Service…