The young, Queenstown-based businessman has been listed as one of the 30 top entrepreneurs in Australia under 30 years old.

“It's a bit of an honour to be celebrated for doing what I love, but it's great to see how the things I'm passionate about driving are respected and admired by others,” he said. 

At 29 years old, Mr Mostogl is the only Tasmanian on the national entrepreneurial list.

“I’m pretty stoked and surprised about it,” he said. 

“I didn’t really expect to be in there.”

 Mr Mostogl sits on the board of several organisations, is an executive director of the Van Diemen Project and founder of Illuminate Education and Consultancy.

On Tuesday he was announced as one of Anthill’s 30Under30 Winners – an annual list aimed to encourage and promote entrepreneurship among young Australians.

When asked about his recent work, Mr Mostogul said the success with Illuminate Education was a highlight.

But the recent success has come after seven years of the project being a “labour of love”.

Using his own successful entrepreneurial skills Mr Mostogl – through Illuminate Education – teaches school students the skills to use if they become business owners one day.

In one week students learn business strategy, finance and marketing to come up with a business concept if they become the business owners of the future.

“It was a lot of hard work,” Mr Mostogl said. 

After seven years the company had 2700 students earlier this year.

Mr Mostogl proudly recognises the company has now reached 4500 students across the nation.

”It’s hard work and it’s recognising that overnight success is very rare,” he said. 

Mr Mostogl is no stranger to recognition.

In 2015 he was named Tasmania’s Young Australian of the Year.

Proudly remaining in his home state to foster the entrepreneurial scene, Mr Mostogl hoped more Tasmanians would be on future Anthill 30Under30 influencing lists.

“I hope that’s not going to be the case for long,” he said. 

“Hopefully we’ll see more Tasmanians come on to these sorts of things.”

He said there had never been a more exciting time to be a young Tasmanian business person. 

“The culture in Tassie is really, really, powerful,” he said.

“It’s a good time to be starting businesses because there’s a lot of support around you. 

“It’s a really exciting time because we’re seeing a lot of things come on the boil.”