Simon Walter Hackett is an Australian technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder (with Robyn Taylor) of Internode, an Australian national broadband services company.
Career
He is a 1986 graduate of the University of Adelaide, holding a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science.
Together with John Romkey, Hackett became the first to connect a commercial domestic appliance (a Sunbeam Deluxe Automatic Radiant Control Toaster) to the internet in 1990.[1]
Internode was founded in May 1991. In 1997 Hackett founded a subsidiary called Agile Communications[2] that was a licensed national telecommunications carrier and was the first South Australian based company to gain this license.[3][4]