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29 Years of Leadership
Our focus is on helping you leverage technology to fulfill your growth strategy
Our continuous growth over the last 29 years has been achieved by focusing on you – our clients.
By understanding your organisation’s business needs, we continue to enable and shape your technology needs to support you and your ongoing growth.
To achieve this we constantly develop our business and our people who can help you navigate this continuous evolution within the technology sector.
We want to be your partner of choice , working with you to select, augment, integrate and support the technology, tools, and tactics to achieve your objectives.
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Your Growth? How Do We Do It?
By taking the time to listen and understand our clients issues and points of pain, along with their visions and growth goals for the future, we can help them overcome their business challenges and barriers to their growth.
We view technology as our toolset to enable that growth, and our experienced technicians will help you apply these technologies to remove any barriers to your growth.
Focused on Solutions
We also focus on crafting cloud and data centre hosted solutions that provide reliable, hassle-free computing to springboard from.
Working with state and local government, as well as private industry and not for profit sectors, our team is known for attention to detail and delivering measurable business outcomes. We’re at ease supporting mission-critical applications at South Australia’s largest hospital just as we are guiding technology choices for a small professional services firm with a handful of people.
We’re not just an it company. We’ve been around since 1994 and we’re a business that places crucial emphasis on understanding your organisation’s expectations. In doing so, our work focuses on lowering risk, improving efficiency, and reducing complexity through the design of your specific solution built on proven technology.
Our focus is on helping our clients grow and leverage the many opportunities emerging in SA.
Trakgene
Trakgene is an SA owned and developed market leader of clinical genetics information management software.
Shaw and Smith
Connectivity, the catalyst for change. Loftus worked with Shaw and Smith to determine the most appropriate and practical way to deliver the best connectivity solution.
Weber
Customer service is in the company’s DNA , so much so that Weber has been voted best BBQ seven years straight by Choice magazine.
Trakgene
Trakgene is an SA owned and developed market leader of clinical genetics information management software.
Shaw and Smith
Connectivity, the catalyst for change. Loftus worked with Shaw and Smith to determine the most appropriate and practical way to deliver the best connectivity solution.
Our Team
The team that makes everything happen for all of our clients
John has worked in the technology sector for 34 years having held positions in leading global manufacturers, pharmaceutical organisations and Oxford University. He and his wife Becky, started TekNet Solutions in the UK in 1998 and more recently TekNet in South Australia in 2018. TekNet are the owners of the Loftus brand, a brand spanning 26 years of successful history.
John Stronnar
Chief Executive Officer
Justin has been in and around technology since for over 30 years. From experiencing success within global markets, to being able to make a real difference locally, Justin believes there is no greater career playground to work in.
“The opportunities that exist for growth in this industry are endless, the trick is being able to pick the right ones that align with the direction of the business.
As technology matures, Loftus Technology needs to continue its evolution in order to remain relevant to the market and its customers.
Changing the dialogue, having brave and different conversations with it customers, and understanding what drives them will lead to great outcomes for Loftus and its customers.”
Justin Porter
Chief Operating Officer
Chris has been around the world of computers all his life. Known as the IT kid , who would be pulled out of class to fix his school’s Commodore 64 computers, Chris has spent his life helping people with their technology challenges.
As the Company’s Technical Director, Chris is driven by three things; seeing the change in companies when they realise what technology can do for them, seeing the growth in his team where the mantra continues to be “nothing is too hard”, and great coffee.
Chris Harris
Technical Director
James has worked in the IT industry for over 20 years. Early in his career, he realised that he had made the right choice to follow his interest in computing, rather than mechanical engineering, and has not looked back.
As a senior engineer in the infrastructure team, James is part of the project delivery team, and he is as comfortable with screwdriver in hand as he is chatting with our customers on their technology plans and direction.
James Bills
Infrastructure Engineer
Ben Gaughan
Infrastructure Consultant
Ben Gaughan
Infrastructure Consultant
Wajeeha Khojestagan
Network Engineer
Karl Harder
Infrastructure Engineer
Karl Harder
Infrastructure Engineer
Jason Ong
Infrastructure Engineer
Jason Ong
Infrastructure Engineer
Chris has been developing software for over 20 years. Driven by a desire to be creative , he was drawn into programming and development. As Loftus’ senior developer, Chris is an advocate for co design, and passionate about delivering on projects that give the customer real usable outcomes.
Chris Cirami
Senior Developer
Viet is a new addition to the applications team. Having begun his development career with Government in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet is a technology enthusiast and is fascinated about how it can benefit society.
Viet is driven by being able to make a positive difference to Loftus’ clients, and his continuous learning journey will ensure our clients projects will be built with the software tools that best fit their desired outcomes.
A great addition to the team with extensive international knowledge.
Viet Bui
Software Developer
Emma Afarinesh
Sales and Administration Manager
Emma Afarinesh
Sales and Administration Manager
Ken has been in IT for over 35 years, delivering systems and solutions that stand the test of time, Ken is a stalwart of the industry. Driven by a desire to deliver technical excellence, Ken considers himself as the face of his customers within the Loftus business , and the face of Loftus within his business.
An affable character, part of the Loftus wallpaper, Ken always has the customers needs front and centre .
Ken Sullivan
Infrastructure Consultant