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Jost Stollmann
Former Chief Executive Officer, Tyro Payments Limited
Ceremony: 14 October , pm - UTS Business School
Speech
Wow, what a campus, a space, a community celebrating the ingenuity of the human mind.
Presiding Deputy Chancellor, Provost, Dean of the Faculty, Presiding Director, Chair of Academic Board, Members of the university executive, staff, family, friends and most importantly graduates, I am very honoured to have been invited to share this important moment.
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The apostle Paul not only confirms that the world is blessed through Abraham's faithful life but also that anyone who has faith in God is considered one of his spiritual sons and heir of the promises. Now in the Scriptures, God, seeing in advance that He would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed. Abraham, without a doubt, lived a most fascinating life! Abram his birth name before God renamed him was born in the city of Ur of the Chaldees to a family that included older brothers Haran and Nahor. Terah, his father, was years old at his birth.I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land which the UTS campus stands on, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay respect to the Elders past, present, and emerging.
I can see it in front of me. The stage of the world famous Kirov Ballet in Saint Petersburg, empty, where the defector and one of the greatest male ballet dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov, in the movie “White Nights” recaptured by the Soviets, explodes in dancing sequences screaming into the direction of his former lover prima ballerina: “Free, do you know what it means to be free”.
Education, skills and knowledge give you the freedom to live a considered life, one that you have chosen, one that is worth living.
We are here in a place of education and knowledge.
Knowledge is the most fascinating driver of progress. The accumulated knowledge of mankind doubles every five years.
Jost stollmann biography of abraham Presiding Deputy Chancellor, Provost, Dean of the Faculty, Presiding Director, Chair of Academic Board, Members of the university executive, staff, family, friends and most importantly graduates, I am very honoured to have been invited to share this important moment. I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land which the UTS campus stands on, the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, and pay respect to the Elders past, present, and emerging. I can see it in front of me. Education, skills and knowledge give you the freedom to live a considered life, one that you have chosen, one that is worth living. We are here in a place of education and knowledge.It has the potential to liberate humans from the curses of hunger, poverty, disease and illiteracy. It has the potential to save the planet earth from its worst predator ever, us.
Today, we are celebrating your graduation. We acknowledge the efforts you have made in acquiring skills and knowledge. Bravo! Congratulation! Good on you!
But what is next?
Jost stollmann biography of abraham lincoln Timeline of Peter's Life and Ministry. Why did Abraham and his entire household fight in the Bible's first war? How old was the patriarch when Isaac was born? When was he severely tested by having to sacrifice his own son? How many children did he ultimately produce?Where to build your knowledge further or apply it in real life?
I like the concept of “Flow”, published in by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly, a Hungarian-American psychologist from the University of Chicago, who analysed fulfilled artists and athletes to conclude that life satisfaction overall depends on one’s ability to challenge one’s talent.
You might have already experienced projects or challenges where you got fully immersed and energized, feeling an enjoyment that lets you forget your sense of space and time.
I am blessed to have lived largely such a life.
I was 28, working in Chicago in my first job with the Boston Consulting Group, when I got fired. I considered this to be the end of my educational journey and with hindsight good career advice.
I found fulfilment in identifying real problems worthwhile solving that require a significantly new approach.
I call it: “Bring new things to life”. To use an image of ice hockey, do not chase the hockey puck, rather be where the hockey puck will be!
Of seven real problems that I tried my luck on, I succeeded with three, failed with three, partly succeeded and failed with one.
All were great experiences of all types ranging from shadow minister for Economy and Technology enabling the first red-green coalition in Germany, to a circumnavigation with the family on our own sailing yacht visiting the most remote islands of the planet to the launch of Australia’s first digital bank challenging the bank oligopoly and providing fair and transparent banking to the small business community - all with heaps of learnings.
When you run out of learning, it is time to move on.
In my view happiness and satisfaction derive from challenging one’s talents.
Biography of isaac Being an entrepreneur is all about rethinking, inventing, creating. Important problems stare at you everywhere you go and there is a drive in you to want to find dramatically better solutions. You are attracted by the seemingly impossible, certainly by making a difference. I have always been an entrepreneur and my first success came in the start-up that I founded in Germany in called CompuNet, a billion dollar network integrator surfing on the huge wave of the personal computer and network revolution. We ended up selling the company to GE Capital inI do not mean this in the classical career sense.
People are different with different talents and aspirations. One cares for terminally ill people in their last hour, others help youngsters to unfold their talents, again others create new insight or new enterprise.
I am a great believer in you making a hypothesis of what you consider to be the most urgent or greatest problem to solve, map the respective space as to the best minds, leaders, institutions, companies and then find your entry point.
Try hard, fail fast and adjust or change your hypothesis until you find your true professional vocation.
If you struggle to find the theme of your passion, immerse yourself in the community of people who want to reinvent the world, trawl in the world of science, innovation, start-ups and networking events and let yourself be inspired.
The Nobel Price Laureate in Literature George Bernard Shaw had this to say: “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” Man and obviously woman.
To each and every one of you graduates I wish the Best for whatever endeavour you chose to pursue.
About the Speaker
Jost is an entrepreneur and has previously served as Chief Executive Officer of the Australian bank and financial technology institution Tyro Payments.
In he founded the multi-billion dollar German system and network integrator company CompuNet.
In , Jost went on to work for General Electric (GE), becoming President of GE Capital Information Technology Solutions, Europe.
After his time in GE, he was appointed as the Federal Shadow Minister of Economy and Technology in Germany.
Jost then went on to manage the successful election campaign of German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.
He came to Australia in , and in launched the digital challenger bank, Tyro Payments, offering integrated, mobile, cloud-based banking to Australian small-to-medium enterprises (SME).
Jost has built Tyro into a prominent player, employing in more than staff, processing more than $ billion in EFTPOS transactions and serving more than 25, Australian SMEs.
After more than 10 years at the helm of Tyro, he decided in October to hand over the reins to a new leadership team.
Jost graduated from the University Paris-Assas with a Masters of Law degree specialising in commercial and international law, and a Diploma in Political Sciences from the Institute of Political Sciences of Paris. He holds a Masters of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, and is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Jost was also a finalist in the New Zealand Millennium Cup when he sailed 40, nautical miles circumnavigating the globe.