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 said.
The eight companies Mason directed – Oldcoa Ltd, Oldcob Ltd, Oldcc Ltd, Oldcod Ltd, Oldcoaab Ltd, Oldcoffb Ltd, Oldholdcoa Ltd and Oldopscoa Ltd – all went into compulsory liquidation in January 2022.
Dylan and Antrobus allowed more than £13.9m to be received into the Oldcoft Ltd current account from 10 connected companies. Mason was a director of eight of these companies, with proceedings ongoing against the director of the remaining two companies.
During the same period, payments of more than £11.7m were made from Oldcoft Ltd’s current account. Dylan himself received £1.675m and more than £7.4m was transferred to Old3 Ltd’s account, which was known at the time as Fresh Thinking Group Limited.
At least £1.545m was also transferred to other connected companies.
In 2024 the trio were each handed 22-month prison sentences for breaching freezing orders connected to these overdrafts. The judge accused them of “lying prolifically” to cover up their actions.
Only Dylan – now based in Dublin, and formerly based in Salford – has been jailed to date, after serving half of his sentence. Mason, 36, continues to live in Barcelona.
All three were declared bankrupt in October and August 2025.
“Jack Mason was a director of eight companies that played a central role in a scheme that caused significant financial harm,” said Victoria Edgar, chief investigator at the Insolvency Service.
“His failure to prevent unarranged overdrafts being used was a serious breach of his responsibilities as a company director.
“The fact that he is now living in Barcelona does not stop us from preventing him from using UK companies for the next seven-and-a-half years to cause further harm.”
Dylan and Antrobus were banned as company directors for a combined 23 years at a hearing of the High Court in London in December 2025.
The judge described Dylan as the “driving force in this scheme which can really be regarded as a scam” and banned him for 13 years. He added that the scheme had “no legitimate purpose”.
Antrobus was disqualified for 10 years.
The Secretary of State for Business and Trade accepted a disqualification undertaking from Mason, and his ban started on Monday 30 March.
It prevents him from being involved in the promotion, formation or management of a company, without the permission of the court.