The Team

The Konnekt team shares a passion for providing a unique product and service, with oustanding customer support, worldwide.

We also love great coffee. It’s not in our hiring policy; it just seems that way.

Karl Grimm

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

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.

Read the Founders’ story.

Karl’s story: My Mum & Tech Stress

Gabriella Fox

Marketing Coordinator

Gabby is a natural leader and marketeer, and is building business relationships between Konnekt and Aged Care industry associations, government bodies and residential facilities.

In between running marathons, Gabby is completing the last semester of her Bachelor of Business (Marketing) degree at RMIT.

Stefi Allinson

IT Coordinator

Stefi is our cheerful and helpful resident IT expert. Stefi oversees the setup and configuration of Videophones to individual customer needs.

Degree-qualified with a Bachelor of IT, Stefi’s expertise encompasses multiple operating systems, networking and web communications, and many other technologies.

Caru Froneman

Marketing Coordinator

Methodical and enthusiastic, Caru plans, tracks and helps execute Konnekt’s marketing campaigns across digital and traditional media.

Caru is also completing the last semester of her Bachelor of Business (Marketing) degree, enabling her to apply the very latest methods to help the Konnekt team improve the quality of life of even more people.

Ian Holland

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.

Sarah Chan

Digital Marketing

Sarah excels in Digital Marketing analytics. She is already responsible for spreading Videophone across the globe, and hopes to add Antarctica to our customer list.

When she’s not watching AFL football matches and cheering on her team, Sarah is completing her Master of Marketing at RMIT.

Angelo David

Digital Marketing Coordinator

Angelo is a natural in sales. He plans to educate online customers worldwide about Videophone’s benefits, through the medium of Digital Marketing.

In between volunteering for the Asian Association and assisting with Fit2FightCancer, Angelo is at RMIT completing his Bachelor of Business, majoring in Information Systems.

Anthony Amato

Marketing & Content

Anthony has a knack for creating content that informs, inspires and touches the heart.

During breaks from his Bachelor of Business (Marketing) course, Anthony enjoys the cricket and is a self-confessed supporter of the St Kilda football club.

Darshika Chaturvedi

Marketing Specialist

Darshika comes to Konnekt from the University of Nottingham Malaysia, where she created digital and print content. Darshika loves learning and is already making it easier for customers across the globe to discover and read about our unique Videophone.

Although she is busy completing her Masters of Marketing, Darshika finds time to watch sports – especially cricket and badminton.

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 organizations that we highly respect, that we would recommend to you for their services, their web-based resources or their research papers.

Click on each image to learn how they can help you.

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

TeleTidy’s swivel brackets can mount TVs and video phones onto almost any hospital or aged-care bed.

Darren helps you cater for bedridden and chair-bound residents, reduce tripping hazards and comply with OH&S policy.

Darren Lowe

TeleTidy

Zeina Torre, Co-Founder of Home Carers Direct

Home Carers Direct connects people seeking home care directly with vetted, suitably qualified, and insured, home carers.

Zeina’s family-owned business is a simple and convenient way for you to access affordable and flexible home care services.

Zeina Torre

Home Carers Direct

The Virtual Team

Our team of local and international partners supply hardware to our specification, develop Videophone software, support Konnekt Internet services, design our web and demonstrate 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.

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