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EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT EXHIBIT 10.14
This EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") is entered into effective
as of June 1, 1997, by and among CompuRAD, Inc., a Delaware corporation
("Company") and Xxxxx Xxxxxx, the Employee.
RECITALS:
A. Employee is currently an "at will" employee of the Company; and
B. The Company and Employee mutually desire to modify the terms and
conditions of Employee's employment, including the conversion of Employee's at
will status to employment for a described term of years, and to enter into this
Agreement which set forth the terms and conditions of Employee's employment;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the agreements
contained herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
adequacy of which the parties hereby acknowledge, the parties agree as follows:
1. EMPLOYMENT
The Company hereby agrees to employ Employee, and Employee, in
consideration of such employment and other consideration set forth herein,
hereby accepts employment, upon the terms and conditions set forth herein.
2. POSITION AND DUTIES
During the term of this Agreement, Employee shall be employed in the
position specified on the attached Exhibit A. While employed hereunder, Employee
shall do all things necessary, legal and incident to the above position. If the
Company believes that the Employee has been derelict in the performance of his
duties or has been insubordinate or failed, in a material way to carry out the
directions of the Board, it must deliver to Employee a written notice
specifically identifying the conduct in question and the Company shall grant
Employee thirty days from the date that Employee receives such notice to take
fully corrective or remedial action.
3. COMPENSATION
The Employee shall receive the compensation and benefits listed on the
attached Exhibit A. Such compensation shall be paid by the Company.
4. EXPENSES
Within 30 days of request by Employee, the Company shall pay or
reimburse Employee for all travel, including air travel, and out-of-pocket
expenses reasonably incurred or paid by Employee in connection with the
performance of Employee's duties as an employee of the Company, upon compliance
with the Company's procedures for expense reimbursement including the
presentation of expense statements or receipts or such other supporting
documentation as the Company may reasonably require.
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The Company shall provide Employee with a corporate credit card for use
by Employee solely to reimburse Company expenses.
5. PRIOR EMPLOYMENT
The Employee warrants and represents to the Company (i) that the
Employee will take no action in violation of any employment agreement or
arrangement with any prior employer, (ii) that the Employee has disclosed to the
Company all such prior written agreements, (iii) that any employment agreement
or arrangement with any prior employer is null and void and of no effect, and
(iv) that the Employee has the full right and authority to enter into this
Agreement and to perform all of the Employee's obligations hereunder. The
Employee agrees to indemnify and hold the Company harmless from and against any
and all claims, liabilities or expenses incurred by the Company as a result of
any claim made by any prior employer arising out of this Agreement or the
employment of the Employee by the Company.
6. OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT
Employee shall devote Employee's full time and attention to the
performance of the duties incident to Employee's position with the Company, and
shall not have any other employment with any other enterprise or substantial
responsibility for any enterprise which would be inconsistent with Employee's
duty to devote Employee's full time and attention to Company matters. The
foregoing shall not prevent the Employee from participating in any charitable or
civic organization or any other type of employment or activity that does not
interfere with Employee's performance of the duties and responsibilities to be
performed by Employee under this Agreement, nor shall Employee be prevented from
acting as a Director of any organization not in direct competition with the
Company.
7. CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION
Employee shall not, during the term of this Agreement or at any time
thereafter, disclose, or cause to be disclosed, in any way, Confidential
Information, or any part thereof, to any person, firm, corporation, association,
or any other operation or entity, or use the Confidential Information on
Employee's own behalf, for any reason or purpose. Employee further agrees that,
during the term of this Agreement or at any time thereafter, Employee will not
distribute, or cause to be distributed, Confidential Information to any third
person or permit the reproduction of the Confidential Information, except on
behalf of the Company in Employee's capacity as an employee of the Company.
Employee shall take all reasonable care to avoid unauthorized disclosure or use
of the Confidential Information. Employee hereby assumes responsibility for
disclosure or use of the Confidential Information in violation of this
Agreement.
For the purpose of this Agreement, "Confidential Information" shall
mean any written or unwritten information that specifically relates to and/or is
used in the Company's business (including without limitation, the Company's
services, processes, patents, systems, equipment, creations, designs, formats,
programming, discoveries, inventions, improvements, computer programs, data kept
on computer, engineering, research, development, applications, financial
information, information regarding services and products in development, market
information including test marketing or localized marketing, other information
regarding processes or plans in development, trade secrets, training manuals,
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know-how of the Company, and the customers, clients, suppliers and others with
whom the Company does or has in the past done, business, regardless of when and
by whom such information was developed or acquired) that the Company deems
confidential and proprietary and is generally not known to others outside the
Company and that gives or tends to give the Company a competitive advantage over
persons who do not possess such information or the secrecy of which is otherwise
of value to the Company in the conduct of its business -- regardless of when and
by whom such information was developed or acquired, and regardless of whether
any of these are described in writing, reduced to practice, copyrightable,
patentable or considered patentable, "Confidential Information" shall not
include general industry information or information that is publicly available
or is otherwise in the public domain without breach of this Agreement,
information that Employee has lawfully acquired from a source other than the
Company, or information that is required to be disclosed pursuant to any law,
regulation, or rule of any governmental body or authority or court order.
Company and Employee both acknowledge that the Confidential Information is that
information which is novel, proprietary to and of considerable value to the
Company. Therefore, "Confidential Information" shall relate only to those items
and information in print which are marked by the Company as "Confidential."
Employee agrees that all restrictions contained in this Section 7 are
reasonable and valid under the circumstances and hereby waives all defenses to
the strict enforcement thereof by the Company.
Employee agrees that, upon the request of the Company, Employee will
immediately deliver up to the requesting entity all Confidential Information in
Employee's possession and/or control, and all notes, records, memoranda,
correspondence files and other papers, and all copies, relating to or containing
Confidential Information whether in written, electronic, or other mediums.
Employee does not have, nor can Employee acquire, any property or other right in
the Confidential Information.
8. PROPERTY OF THE COMPANY
All ideas, inventions, discoveries, proprietary information, know-how,
processes and other developments and, more specifically improvements to existing
inventions, conceived by the Employee, alone or with others, during the term of
the Employee's employment, whether or not during working hours and whether or
not while working on a specific project, that are within the scope of the
Company's medical business operations or that relate to any work or projects of
the Company, are and shall remain the exclusive property of the Company.
Inventions, improvements and discoveries relating to the business of the Company
conceived or made by the Employee, either alone or with others, while employed
with the Company are conclusively and irrefutably presumed to have been made
during the period of employment and are the sole property of the Company. The
Employee shall promptly disclose in writing any such matters to the Company but
to no other person without the consent of the Company. The Employee hereby
assigns and agrees to assign all right, title, and interest in and to such
matters to the Company. The Employee will, upon request of Company execute such
assignments or other instruments and assist the Company in the obtaining, at the
Company's sole expense of any patents, trademarks or similar protection, if
available, in the name of the Company.
9. NON-COMPETITION AGREEMENT
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(A) During the term of this Agreement and for a period of six
months after the termination date of this Agreement (whether such termination is
with or without cause), Employee agrees that he will not directly or indirectly,
own, operate or otherwise work for or participate in any competitive business in
the United States which designs, develops, manufactures or markets any product
or service that directly competes with the Company's business, products or
services as conducted, or planned to conducted, on the date of termination (a
"Competitive Business").
Employee and the Company agree for a period ending six months from the
termination of Employee's employment with the Company, whether by reason of
resignation, discharge by the Company or otherwise (except by expiration of this
Agreement or change in control, as defined in Section 12), Employee hereby
agrees that Employee will not, directly or indirectly:
(i) solicit, otherwise attempt to employ or contract with any
current employee of the Company for employment or otherwise in any Competitive
Business or otherwise offer any inducement to any current or future employee of
the Company to leave the Company's employ; or
(ii) contact or solicit any customer or client of the Company
(an "Existing Customer"), contact or solicit any individual or business entity
with whom the Company has directly communicated for the purpose of rendering
services prior to the effective date of such termination (a "Potential
Customer") or otherwise provide any other products or services for any Existing
Customer or Potential Customer of the Company, on behalf of a Competitive
Business or in a manner that is competitive to the Company's Business; or
(iii) Use or divulge to anyone any information about the
identity of the Company's customers or suppliers (including without limitation,
mental or written customer lists and customer prospect lists), or information
about customer requirements, transactions, work orders, pricing policies, plans
or any other Confidential Information.
(B) For the purpose of this Agreement, Competitive Business shall
mean any business operation including a sole proprietorship) in the United
States which designs, develops, manufactures or markets any product or service
that in any way competes with the Company's health information access system
business, products or services as conducted on the date of termination.
(C) This Non-Competition Agreement is not effective if Employee
leaves his employment with company solely due to expiration of this Agreement
(12/31/99) or if Employee is terminated by Company without Good Cause (as
defined in Paragraph 11(D)).
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10. TERM
Unless earlier terminated pursuant to Section 11 hereof, the term of
this Agreement shall be for the time period beginning January 1, 1997 the date
hereof and continuing through December 31, 1999 (the "Term"). Neither the
Company not the Employee shall have any obligation to the other to negotiate a
new period of employment subsequent to the end of the Term.
The term of this Agreement shall be automatically extended by one year
on each January 1, beginning on and after January 1, 1998, unless notice of
non-extension is given by Employee or the Company at least 30 days prior to any
January 1. As a result, assuming no notice of non-extension is given, on each
such January 1, the remaining term of this Agreement shall be three years. For
example, assuming no notice of non-extension is given, on January 1, 1998, an
additional year shall be added to the term of this Agreement and, on that date,
this Agreement shall expire on December 31, 2000. On January 1, 1998, assuming
no notice of non-extension is given, an additional year shall be added to the
term of this Agreement and, on that date, this Agreement shall expire on
December 31, 2001, etc.
11. TERMINATION
(A) Death. This Agreement and Employee's employment thereunder shall be
terminated on the death of Employee, effective as of the date of the employee's
death.
(B) Continued Disability. This Agreement and Employee's employment
thereunder may be terminated, at the option of the Company upon a Continued
Disability of Employee, effective as of the date of the determination of
Continued Disability as that term is hereinafter defined. For the purposes of
this Agreement, "Continued Disability" shall be defined as the inability or
incapacity (either mental or physical) of Employee to continue to perform
Employee's duties hereunder for a continuous period of one hundred twenty (120)
working days, or if, during any calendar year of the Term hereof because of
disability, Employee shall have been unable to perform Employee's duties
hereunder for a total period of one hundred eighty (180) working days regardless
of whether or not such days are consecutive. The determination as to whether
Employee is unable to perform the essential functions of Employee's job shall be
made by Company's Board of Directors in its reasonable discretion; provided,
however, that if the Employee is not satisfied with the decision of the Board,
Employee will submit to examination by three competent physicians who practice
in the metropolitan area in which the Employee then resides, one of whom shall
be selected by Company, another of whom shall be selected by Employee, with the
third to be selected by the physicians so selected. The decision of a majority
of the physicians so selected shall supersede the decision of the Board and
shall be final and conclusive.
(C) Termination For Good Cause. Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Agreement, Company may at any time immediately terminate this Agreement and
Employee's employment thereunder for Good Cause. For this purpose, "Good Cause"
shall be defined as: the current use of illegal drugs; indictment for any crime
involving moral turpitude, fraud or misrepresentation; commission of any act
which would constitute a felony and which would adversely impact the business or
reputation of the Company; fraud; misappropriation or embezzlement of Company
funds or property; willful conduct which is materially injurious to the
reputation, business or business relationships of the Company; Employee's
failure to perform his responsibilities and/or duties within the thirty (30) day
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period described in Section 2 hereof; or material violation of any of the
provisions of this Agreement. Any alleged cause for termination shall be
delivered in writing to Employee stating the full basis for such cause along
with any notice of such termination.
(D) Termination without Good Cause. The Company may terminate
Employee's employment prior to the Expiration Date at any time whether or not
for Good Cause (as "Good Cause" is defined in Section 11(C) above). In the event
the Company terminates Employee without cause, the Company will pay Employee a
lump sum amount equal to the greater of (i) two times the Employee's annual
salary at the time of termination, or (ii) the total base salary remaining
unpaid under this Agreement through its full term. Such severance payment shall
be paid within 90 days following the date of Employee's termination. In
addition, the company shall provide at no cost to the Employee continuing health
and welfare benefit coverage at least equal to his existing coverage for a
period of two years.
12. CHANGE IN CONTROL: ACCELERATED VESTING SCHEDULES.
In the event of a change-in-control of the Company, including a merger
or sale of substantially all of the Company's assets, outstanding options or
rights must be substituted at full intrinsic value. In addition, if within
twelve months of a change in control of Company, Employee's employment by the
Company is terminated prior to the end of the Term or Employee terminates his
employment due to a material reduction in his duties or compensation, or if the
Company requires relocation greater than 10 miles away from the current place of
business, the Company will pay Employee a lump sum amount equal to two times the
Employee's annual salary at the time of termination. In addition, the company
shall provide at no cost to the Employee continuing health and welfare benefit
coverage at least equal to his existing coverage for a period of two years. For
purposes of this Agreement, "change in control" means any of the following
events:
(A) A sale, transfer, or other disposition (including, but not limited
to, a merger or consolidation) through a single transaction or a series of
transactions of securities of the Company representing twenty-five percent (25%)
or more of the combined voting power of the Company's then outstanding
securities to any Unrelated Person or Unrelated Persons acting in concert with
one another. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Unrelated Person" shall
mean and include any person other than a person who owns at least ten percent
(10%) of the combined voting power of the Company's securities on the Effective
Date (a "Related Person"). The term shall not include a sale, transfer or other
disposition by a Related Person to his spouse, lineal descendants or his heirs,
devisees and donees and trusts created by him, inter vivos or by will, for the
benefit of such persons or for the benefit of charitable or educational
institutions.
(B) A sale, transfer, or other disposition (including, but not limited
to, a merger or consolidation) by the Company through a single transaction or a
series of transactions of securities of the Company representing twenty-five
percent (25%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company's then
outstanding securities to an Unrelated Person or Unrelated Persons acting in
concert with one another.
(C) A sale, transfer, or other disposition (including, but not limited
to, a merger or consolidation) through a single transaction or a series of
transactions of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to an
Unrelated Person or Unrelated Persons acting in concert with one another.
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(D) A change in the ownership of the Company through a single
transaction or a series of transactions such that any Unrelated Person or
Unrelated Persons acting in concert with one another become the "Beneficial
Owner," directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing at
least a majority of the combined voting power of the Company's then outstanding
securities. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Beneficial Owner" shall
have the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 13d-3 of the General Rules
and Regulations of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, provided that any
pledgee of voting securities shall not be deemed to be the Beneficial Owner
thereof prior to its acquisition of voting rights with respect to such
securities.
(E) During any period of two years, individuals who, at the beginning
of such period, constituted the Board of Directors of the Company cease, for any
reason, to constitute at least a majority thereof, unless the election or
nomination for election of each new Director was approved by the vote of at
least two-thirds of the Directors then still in office who were Directors at the
beginning of such period.
13. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Company and Employee each hereby acknowledge and agree as follows:
(A) The covenants, restrictions, agreements and obligations set forth
herein are founded upon valuable consideration, and, with respect to the
covenants, restrictions, agreements and obligations set forth in Sections 7, 8
and 9 hereof, are reasonable in duration and geographic scope;
(B) In the event of a breach or threatened breach by Employee of any of
the covenants, restrictions, agreements and obligations set forth in Section 7,
8 and/or 9, monetary damages or the other remedies at law that may be available
to the Company for such breach or threatened breach will be inadequate and,
without prejudice to the Company's right to pursue any other remedies at law or
in equity available to it for such breach or threatened breach, including,
without limitation, the recovery of damages from Employee, the Company will be
entitled to injunctive relief from a court of competent jurisdiction; and
(C) The time period and geographical area set forth in Section 9 hereof
are each divisible and separable, and, in the event that the covenants not to
compete contained therein are judicially held invalid or unenforceable as to
such time period and/or geographical area, they will be valid and enforceable in
such geographical area(s) and for such time periods(s) which the court
determines to be reasonable and enforceable. The Employee agrees that in the
event any court of competent jurisdiction determines that the above covenants
are invalid or unenforceable to join with the Company in requesting that court
to construe the applicable provision by limiting or reducing it so as to be
enforceable to the extent compatible with the then applicable law. Furthermore,
any period of restriction or covenant herein stated shall not include any period
of violation or period of time required for litigation to enforce such
restriction or covenant.
14. NOTICES
Any notice or communication required or permitted hereunder shall be
given in writing
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and shall be sufficiently given if delivered personally or sent by telecopier to
such party addressed as follows:
(A) In the case of the Company, if addressed to it as follows:
CompuRAD, Inc.
0000 X. Xxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attn: Corporate Secretary
(B) In the case of Employee, if addressed to Employee as follows:
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
Any such notice delivered personally or by telecopier shall be deemed
to have been received on the date of such delivery. Any address for the giving
of notice hereunder may be changed by notice in writing.
15. ASSIGNMENT, SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon the
parties hereto and their respective legal representatives, successors and
assigns. The Company may assign or otherwise transfer its rights under this
Agreement to any successor or affiliated business or corporation (whether by
sale of stock, merger, consolidation, sale of assets or otherwise), but this
Agreement may not be assigned, nor may the duties hereunder be delegated by
Employee. In the event that the Company assigns or otherwise transfers its
rights under this Agreement to any successor or affiliated business or
corporation (whether by sale of stock, merger, consolidation, sale of assets or
otherwise), for all purposes of this Agreement the "Company" shall then be
deemed to include the successor or affiliated business or corporation to which
the Company, respectively, assigned or otherwise transferred its rights
hereunder.
16. MODIFICATION
This Agreement may not be released, discharged, abandoned, changed or
modified in any manner, except by an instrument in writing signed by each of the
parties hereto.
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17. SEVERABILITY
The invalidity or unenforceability of any particular provision of this
Agreement shall not affect any other provisions hereof, and this Agreement shall
be construed in all respects as if any such invalid provision were omitted
herefrom.
18. COUNTERPARTS
This Agreement may be signed in counterparts and each of such
counterpart shall constitute an original document and such counterparts, taken
together, shall constitute one in the same instrument.
19. DISPUTE RESOLUTION
Except as set forth in Section 13 above, any and all disputes arising
out of or in connection with the execution, interpretation, performance, or
non-performance of this Agreement or any agreement or other instrument between,
involving or affecting the parties (including the validity, scope and
enforceability of this arbitration clause), shall be submitted to and resolved
by arbitration. The arbitration shall be conducted pursuant to the terms of the
Federal Arbitration Act and the Commercial Arbitration Rules of the American
Arbitration Association. Either party may notify the other party at any time of
the existence of an arbitrable controversy by certified mail and shall attempt
in good faith to resolve their differences within fifteen (15) days after the
receipt of such notice. If the dispute cannot be resolved within the fifteen-day
period, either party may file a written demand for arbitration with the American
Arbitration Association. The place of arbitration shall be Tucson, Arizona.
20. GOVERNING LAW
The provisions of this Agreement shall be governed by and interpreted
in accordance with the laws of the State of Arizona and the laws of the United
States applicable therein. The Employee acknowledges and agrees that Employee is
subject to personal jurisdiction in state and federal courts in Pima County,
Arizona.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been executed by the parties
hereto effective as of the date first above written.
COMPURAD, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
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Its: CEO, President
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EMPLOYEE
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx
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EXHIBIT A - COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS
Employee: Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Position: Vice President, Engineering
Salary: Fiscal Year 1997 (1/1/97 - 12/31/97)
Annual Base Salary - $140,000, payable in such number of
installments as may be agreed upon among the Company and
Employee
Target Fiscal Year 1997 Cash Bonus - $35,000, payable in
quarterly installments of $8,750 each.
Within thirty (30) days of the end of the fiscal year, the
Company's Board of Directors, or Compensation Committee
thereof, may annually adjust Employee's base salary upward and
Employee will be eligible to participate in any bonus plan
approved by the Company's Board of Directors, or Compensation
Committee thereof, at the highest level as the Board or
Committee establishes pursuant to any such plan. (This
employee shall then have the sole option to elect to receive
that bonus compensation either in cash or in the form of
unrestricted registered stock (in which event the stock will
be valued at a per share price equal to its lowest trading
closing price during the calendar quarter for which the bonus
is being awarded.)
Stock options:
Company agrees that Employee shall be eligible to participate
in the 1996 CompuRAD, Inc. Employee Stock Option Plan and to
receive stock option grants as the Company's Board of
Directors may determine appropriate from time to time
hereafter.
In addition, Employee shall receive: (i) 3,000 options for
shares of CompuRAD common stock for each calendar quarter in
which this Employee is employed, to be delivered to this
Employee no later than ten (10) days following the close of
each calendar quarter; and (ii) at least 3,000 additional
options for shares of CompuRAD common stock for each quarter
CompuRAD meets the quarterly goals approved by the Board of
Directors, which options for shares shall be determined and
delivered no later than thirty (30) days after the end of the
quarter. These stock options shall be immediately vested in
full and immediately exercisable by this Employee and adjusted
in number of shares to reflect the effect of future splits.
For example, if the share of common stock split 2:1, then the
3,000 options referred to in this subparagraph shall become
6,000 options.
Perquisite Allowance:
$1,000 per month
Benefits: Employee shall be eligible to participate in all other
employee fringe benefit plans of the Company to the same
extent and at the same levels as other executive officers of
the Company are then participating.
Auto Lease: Not to exceed $1,000 per month, including licensing,
maintenance and insurance.
