Matt Mason is a marketing executive, entrepreneur, and author with 20 years of C-level experience at the frontier of consumer tech, AI and blockchain. He was the first CMO at Kraken, head of marketing at BitTorrent, which grew to 175 million users during his tenure, and Studio Head at a Sony Pictures innovation lab. Named #11 on Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business list, Mason started his career as a pirate radio DJ in London, and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of RWD, the UK’s largest music magazine, and wrote the non-fiction bestseller The Pirate’s Dilemma (Simon & Schuster/Penguin). His ‘infographic novel’ Hard Times (Penguin) won Best in Show at SXSW and was exhibited at MoMA.
