The Konnekt team shares a passion for providing reliable health and medical products, with outstanding customer support, worldwide.
The combined experience of our wider team encompasses health, aged care, engineering, electronics, communication, IT, software, business, education and charities.
Karl Grimm BEng
Founder and Managing Director
Karl Grimm is an experienced business leader with a successful history of surmounting technology challenges and creating sought-after products and services. Building an incredibly happy team who love their job is central to good management.
Karl is customer-focused, enjoys a positive outlook on life, and has a reputation for honesty and integrity above all else.
John Nakulski BEng(Hons), MBA
Co-Founder and Marketing Director
The vision for Konnekt’s award-winning Videophone came from John’s struggle to help his Mum overcome dementia, mitigate loneliness and depression, see her grandkids, and stay in her own home longer.
John has a passion for all things related to health and wellness, experience volunteering in Aged Care, and is a champion for user-centric design.
Natalie Allinson
Office Manager
Natalie originally trained as a secondary teacher and worked in education for seven years before moving to office management. She loves to organize and to work with numbers, but also has a passion for people networking.
Experienced in business administration, HR, contracts and more, Natalie tweets rhymes to our Social Media followers and is well known in the local community for her voluntary work in Aged Care.
Ian Holland BEng/BCompSc
System Architect
Ian is renowned in the world of video & voice technology, successful in leading large teams, and accomplished in international business. His work has repeatedly met the high reliability standards of demanding customers such as Fortune 500 corporations.
When Ian isn’t solving the impossible, he coaches basketball and enjoys a highly technical radio direction-finding team sport known as foxhunting.
Daniel Grimm
Product and Support Specialist
Daniel is a dual force in his role at Konnekt.
As an IT support specialist, he resolves technical issues swiftly. As a product and service specialist, he assists new customers, offering solutions tailored to their needs.
Pano Mitropoulos AdvDipEng
Support Technician
As one of our newest Production and Support Technician, Pano builds, personalizes and supports Videophones and Captioning Videophones for our customers.
Pano studied engineering and business management at RMIT.
Kostas Mitropoulos BCommEng/BSci
Support Technician
David Bowen CGETC
Support Technician
Tracy Howard
Admin/Bookkeeper
With a background in Office Administration and Bookkeeping, Tracy helps keep Konnekt running smoothly. You might find yourself talking to Tracy if you call our offices.
When she isn’t visiting her own Mum in Aged Care, Tracy enjoys reading and walking, visiting the gym, and spending time with her grandson.
Xingyi Wu
Marketing Coordinator
Xingyi is a versatile talent with a background in design and applied psychology, currently contributing to the marketing team as a skilled and reliable all-rounder.
Cain Morton
Support Technician
Partners, Associates, Collaborators
We’re often asked for trusted help with government funding, choosing a home, finding service providers and selecting other assistive technology. Here are a few of the individuals and organisations that we highly respect, that we would recommend to you for their services, their web-based resources or their research papers.
Stephen is a champion for elderly care, disability and deafness.
Just So Care provides sales and support for Konnekt products in the UK, Ireland and Israel.
Stephen Minall
Just So Care, United Kingdom
Sales and support partner for Continental Europe.
Making the Videophone available to users with a screen interface in many languages, fast delivery from the service center in Vienna – right in the heart of Europe – and best-in-class support provided during European daytime hours.
Christian Walter
bildfon, Europe
My goal is to offer personalized advice and caring support, to help you or your family.
I can also assist with providing Internet to anyone within the United States.
Tara DeBondt
Environmental Sound Solutions Inc., USA
Graeme leads the team at Think Robotics, located in Auckland.
Think Robotics offers sales and support for Konnekt customers in New Zealand.
Graeme Rawlings
Think Robotics, New Zealand
Andrew is a product expert at Think Robotics in Auckland.
Think Robotics offers New Zealand sales and support for Konnekt Videophone and for local products.
Andrew King
Think Robotics, New Zealand
My goal is to assist you to find the right care solution that meets your needs, wants and wishes in the quickest possible time.
Danielle can help you navigate the government funding maze quickly, select a reputable service provider, and take the work out of care management.
Danielle Robertson
DR Care Solutions, Australia
The Virtual Team
Our team of local and international partners supply hardware to our specification, develop Videophone software, design our web, personalize Videophone for customers in multiple languages, provide IT and Internet support service, and demonstrate and sell our product.
Konnekt has a growing list of sales and support partners in America, Australasia and Europe.
If you feel you can help us improve the lives of the elderly and disabled as a valued Konnekt partner or reseller, simply Contact Us.