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

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.

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.

Darshika Chaturvedi

Sales/Marketing Coordinator

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

Now that she has completed her Masters of Marketing, Darshika finds time for sports – especially cricket and badminton.

Scott Holland

Support Technician

David Bowen

Support Technician

Srishti Deva

Business IT Intern

Srishti is completing her Bachelor of Business Information Systems at RMIT University. At Konnekt, she is experiencing first hand how technology simplifies business processes.

During her short time with us, Srishti has already helped conduct rigorous product testing, analyze worldwide sales and automate multi-lingual email campaigns.

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, 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.

Konnekt Jobs

Konnekt is looking for Support Technicians to work at our offices in Chelsea. Please contact Karl to enquire.

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