People

Edward Mason

NON-EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

Edward’s career in strategy and communications has included senior client-side positions, for example as NED and Strategy Director of Fortnum’s, as well as on the agency side, as CEO of Claydon Heeley Jones Mason, which was bought by Omnicom.

His conventional appearance belies a creative, lateral-thinking mind. This combination engenders trust in leadership teams working to find their aligned vision and strategy — the pure signal that inspires high-performing teams and commercial success. He has been the quiet hand behind many notable success stories.

Alongside his role at Paternoster he is NED at Modern Baker, the foodtech company behind SUPERLOAF, the world’s first healthy UPF, and at True Royalty TV, the US-focused streaming channel he co-founded. He is also an Operating Partner for Bosham Capital Associates.

Edward is also an Associate on the Faculty at the Moller Institute for Leadership at Cambridge University, a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and a Trustee of the charity Success after Stroke.

A graduate of Durham University, where he was President of the Debating Union, he balances his working life with his workshop, where he is happiest rebuilding a vintage car or sculpting a life-size wild animal whilst listening to Ipswich winning a football match on the radio.