About Us

iCyte was created after its founders, Graham Smith and Stephen Foley, saw first hand the benefits of annotating documents. In Graham's earlier creation, LiveNote, lawyers would annotate transcripts that were often hundreds of pages in length to find the portions of it that were most relevant to their case.

In early 2007, Graham and Stephen started iCyte to apply the concept of annotations to the broader market of doing research on the internet. The product has evolved since then to incorporate the saving of webpages and collaboration features.

  • View Graham Smith's Profile Graham Smith
    Founder

    Founded Smith Bernal International and LiveNote in 1983 and 1990 respectively, it was over a bottle of Super Tuscan at my property in Italy with Steve Foley that the whole iCyte concept caught my imagination!

    I used to bookmark a list of hotels, restaurants and places to see when traveling through Europe and beyond, only to find sites disappearing and being amended - and generally finding the whole thing unmanageable when more and more sites were entered!

    For me iCyte addresses an existing need, but has the potential to go way beyond this - and that's what really excites me!

  • View Stephen Foley's Profile Stephen Foley
    Founder and CEO

    I have been involved in developing software for many years. Many of the products I have developed have been supporting people in their research. iCyte is the culmination of all this work as it allows anyone who searches online to save their results and share them with others.

    My hope is that people will not only use iCyte for their own online management and research but will also use the product collaboratively as a way to increase awareness of critical issues, such as environmental, health, social, political and financial concerns that we now face and discover answers that lead us to a better and more sustainable world.

  • View Hal Marcus's Profile Hal Marcus
    Chief Business Development Officer

    Having worked with most of the iCyte team for over 5 years at LiveNote, I'm excited to be reteamed with some of the most talented and enjoyable colleagues I've known. A lawyer by training, a ham by nature, I've made a career of evangelizing practical technologies that have a positive impact on the daily lives of their users. I believe iCyte's potential in this regard is unbounded! I hope you all enjoy iCyte as much as we do, and keep guiding us on how to make it better.

  • View Martin Bangs's Profile Martin Bangs
    Chief Financial Officer

    A Chartered Accountant, I have broad senior commercial experience across a range of companies including start up with particular experience in legal and healthcare services. I seek to ensure iCyte continues its growth path through careful financial control and pragmatic decision-making, without restricting any element of the essential and exceptional creative impetus shown to date.

  • View Zoltan Olah's Profile Zoltan Olah
    Software Architect

    I'm from Melbourne/Australia and work for iCyte in New York (and shortly in Berkeley, CA). Having fun building our firefox extension and rails backend. This place is great but i'm missing the outdoors and wide open spaces.

    I'm passionate about clean design, test driven development and great architecture.

    Jellies rock!

  • View Tom Coleman's Profile Tom Coleman
    Software Engineer

    Born in Adelaide and raised in Melbourne, I've been tinkering with computers and technology my whole life. After completing my PhD at Melbourne University I joined iCyte to (hopefully) help them take over the world. In the process I've been able to enjoy the beauty which is web development with Ruby on Rails.

    Outside of work I love to play guitar and indoor soccer, support my AFL team (go the cats!), and travel to wide parts of the globe.

  • View Joe Dollard's Profile Joe Dollard
    Systems Engineer

    My love for technology grew from hacking around in Linux when I was in high school, and has developed since then to other new technologies.

    I've recently gotten into playing old arcade games (ladybug in particular!); it's mind boggling that games with such addictive game-play could be written back in the early 80's with just a few KB of memory available.

  • View Dominic H. Nguyen's Profile Dominic H. Nguyen
    Designer

    I am a designer, illustrator and human who lives and works in the Bay Area, California. I am working with iCyte to make a great, intuitive, beautiful, simple, [insert superlative here] product.