Dr. Matthias Catón

My name is Matthias Catón. I’m the Director of Corporate Development at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.

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Mercator Science Policy Fellowship Program

Frankfurt School is cooperating with the Mercator Science Policy Fellowship Program, which brings together senior leaders from the public sector and NGOs with faculty from different universities. The aim is to engage in an in-depth exchange around topics of the future.

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Frankfurt School Founders’ Day & StartUp Night

*** ATTENTION: Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic we had to cancel this event. ***

Once again, Frankfurt School will host its annual Founders’ Day and StartUp Night for all entrepreneurship enthusiasts in the FS community.  In the afternoon, there will be workshops, followed by a fair with recruiting and networking opportunities with stakeholders in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the evening.

From 17:30 to 18:00 the teams from Futury’s “The Mission: Banking – be Green” will pitch their sustainable startup ideas.

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Frankfurt School and Futury cooperate on sustainable innovation project

Frankfurt School is partnering with Futury for its sustainable startup project, “The Mission: Banking – Be Green!” Together with supermarket chain Kaufland and insurer Zurich we will provide expertise to five teams working on innovative ideas around making banking and finance more sustainable.

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Welcoming the 2019 Bachelor intake at Frankfurt School

Earlier this month, 268 new students began their university studies at Frankfurt School in the Bachelor (BSc) in Business Administration. As usual, the BSc team welcomed them with a full week of socializing, useful workshops, a big teambuilding challenge, and the official opening ceremony.

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My year as Toastmasters Area Director

July is the month of change at Toastmasters, as officers’ terms end and new volunteers take over. For me, it marks the end of my one-year tenure as Area Director of Area F3 in District 95. The Area encompasses four clubs in the Frankfurt and Rhine-Main metropolitan region of Germany: Professional Speakers Frankfurt (my home club), Esprit de Corps (where I was a member for many years), Darmstadt Toastmasters, and Rhetorik-Club Bergstraße in Bensheim.

The Area ended up being “Select Distinguished“, the second-highest of three levels of excellence. Two of the clubs (Esprit de Corps and Darmstadt Toastmasters) even reached the highest distinction, “President’s Distinguished“ and one club (Professional Speakers Frankfurt) reached “Distinguished“.

Overall membership in the Area grew slightly from 114 to 119 members. We have promising prospective clubs, most notably those at Deutsche Börse and Deutsche Bank, which may charter in 2019/20.

Welcoming participants at the Area Contest

We held two successful training sessions for club officers in August and January and hosted the English-language Area Contest for our Area and neighboring F4 in February.

Our Area was also well represented at this year’s District Conference in Gothenburg. Kai-Jürgen Lietz (Professional Speakers) placed third in the German Speech Contest. Franziska Wiebel (representing Rhetorik-Club Wiesbaden, but also a member of Professional Speakers) came in third in the English Evaluation Contest.

With contestants and the Chief Judge at the Area Contest

It’s been an honor serving the clubs in my Area. Of course, the successes we’ve had are primarily the fruit of active membership and the club officers’ great work. Thanks for your support!

I now hand over to Valérie Tettinek, who, coincidentally, also hails from Professional Speakers. I’m sure she will do a fabulous job!

After almost three years with challenging leadership roles in Toastmasters – first as founder and Charter President of Professional Speakers and then as Area Director – I’m happy to currently be “only“ Vice President Public Relations of my Club.

I will now concentrate a bit more on my speaking – my career as a professional speaker and a contestant in Toastmasters competitions.

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Toastmasters Area Contest in Frankfurt

On 26 February 2019 Toastmasters and guests from Frankfurt and the Rhine/Main metropolitan region met for the annual English-language Area Contest for Areas F3 and F4. A group of 32 participants enjoyed great speeches and conviviality over food and drinks.

There were three types of contests: Evaluation, where contestants had to evaluate a so-called target speech; Table Topics, which is an improvised speech contest where contestants have to talk about a topic previously unknown to them; and the International Speech Contest, which is a general topic contest that continues all the way to the World Championship of Public Speaking. Below are the results of the different contests.

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Evaluation Contest F3

  1. Neha Attri (Esprit de Corps)

Evaluation Contest F4

  1. Oliver Grytzmann (Business Club Frankfurt)
  2. Daniel Pfeiffer (Taunus Toastmasters)
  3. Serchan Look (Rhetorik-Club Frankfurt)

Table Topics Contest F3

  1. Abhishek Vyas (Esprit de Corps/Professional Speakers Frankfurt)
  2. Christopher Jones (Darmstadt Toastmasters)

Table Topics Contest F4

  1. Martin Gamble (Business Club Frankfurt)
  2. Piyali Bhaumik (Taunus Toastmasters)
  3. Serchan Look (Rhetorik-Club Frankfurt)

International Speech Contest F3

  1. Abhishek Vyas (Esprit de Corps/Professional Speakers Frankfurt)

International Speech Contest F4

  1. Oliver Grytzmann (Business Club Frankfurt)
  2. Christa Fajen (Rhetorik-Club Frankfurt)

All winners will proceed to the Division F contest on 23 March 2019.