CONSULTING
AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT is dated for
reference the 19th day of July, 2007.
BETWEEN:
Dussault Apparel
Inc. , a body
corporate with offices at
8010 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
90046-7010
(the
“Company”)
AND:
Robert Mintak
, with an address at 3742 West 10th Avenue,
Vancouver, BC V6R 2G4
(the
“Contractor”)
WHEREAS:
A. The
Company desires to retain the Contractor as the Company’s
Chief Operating Officer to provide the Company with the services
detailed in Schedule A hereto (the “Services”) in
regards to the Company’s business operations, and
B. The
Contractor has agreed to provide the Services to the Company on the
terms and conditions of this Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE THIS AGREEMENT
WITNESSES that in consideration of the mutual covenants and
promises set forth herein, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby
acknowledged by each, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
ARTICLE 1
APPOINTMENT AND AUTHORITY OF
CONTRACTOR
1.1
Appointment of Contractor . The Company hereby appoints the
Contractor to perform the Services for the benefit of the Company
as hereinafter set forth, and the Company hereby authorizes the
Contractor to exercise such powers as provided under this
Agreement. The Contractor accepts such appointment on the terms and
conditions herein set forth.
1.2
Performance of Services . The Services hereunder have been
and shall continue to be provided on the basis of the following
terms and conditions:
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(a)
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the Contractor shall report directly
to the Chief Executive Officer and/or President of the
Company;
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(b)
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the Contractor shall faithfully,
honestly and diligently serve the Company and cooperate with the
Company and utilize maximum professional skill and care to ensure
that all services rendered hereunder, including the Services, are
to the satisfaction of the Company, acting reasonably, and the
Contractor shall provide any other services not
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specifically mentioned herein, but
which by reason of the Contractor's capability the Contractor knows
or ought to know to be necessary to ensure that the best interests
of the Company are maintained; and
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(c)
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the Company shall report the results
of the Contractor's duties hereunder as may be requested by the
Company from time to time.
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1.3
Authority of Contractor . The Contractor shall have no right
or authority, express or implied, to commit or otherwise obligate
the Company in any manner whatsoever except to the extent
specifically provided herein or specifically authorized in writing
by the Company.
1.4
Independent Contractor . In performing the Services, the
Contractor shall be an independent contractor and not an employee
or agent of the Company, except that the Contractor shall be the
agent of the Company solely in circumstances where the Contractor
must be the agent to carry out its obligations as set forth in this
Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed to require the
Contractor to provide the Services exclusively to the Company and
the Contractor hereby acknowledges that the Company is not required
and shall not be required to make any remittances and payments
required of employers by statute on the Contractor's behalf and the
Contractor or any of its agents shall not be entitled to the fringe
benefits provided by the Company to its employees.
ARTICLE 2
CONTRACTOR'S
AGREEMENTS
2.1
Expense Statements . The Contractor may incur expenses in
the name of the Company as agreed in advance in writing by the
Company, provided that such expenses relate solely to the carrying
out of the Services. The Contractor will immediately forward all
invoices for expenses incurred on behalf of and in the name of the
Company and the Company agrees to pay said invoices directly on a
timely basis. The Contractor agrees to obtain approval from the
Company in writing for any individual expense of $1,000 or greater
or any aggregate expense in excess of $1,000 incurred in any given
month by the Contractor in connection with the carrying out of the
Services.
2.2
Regulatory Compliance . The Contractor agrees to comply with
all applicable securities legislation and regulatory policies in
relation to providing the Services, including but not limited to
United States securities laws (in particular, Regulation FD) and
the policies of the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission.
2.3
Prohibition Against Insider Trading . The Contractor hereby
acknowledges that the Contractor is aware, and further agrees that
the Contractor will advise those of its directors, officers,
employees and agents who may have access to Confidential
Information, that United States securities laws prohibit any person
who has material, non-public information about a company from
purchasing or selling securities of such a company or from
communicating such information to any other person under
circumstances in which it is reasonably foreseeable that such
person is likely to purchase or sell such securities.
ARTICLE 3
COMPANY'S
AGREEMENTS
3.1
Compensation Shares . The compensation for the Services
rendered by the Contractor to date and for agreeing to enter into
this Agreement shall be payable in 1,500,000 shares of the
Company's common stock (the “Compensation Shares”) for
the Term.
3.2
Voting of Compensation Shares . The Contractor covenants and
agrees that, with respect to the Compensation Shares that it
receives, it shall, at all times that it is the beneficial owner of
such shares, vote such shares on all matters coming before it as a
stockholder of the Company in the same manner as the majority of
the board of directors of the Company shall recommend.
3.3
Information . Subject to the terms of this Agreement,
including without limitation Article 5 hereof, and provided
that the Contractor agrees that it will not disclose any material
non-public information to any person or entity, the Company shall
make available to the Contractor such information and data and
shall permit the Contractor to have access to such documents as are
reasonably necessary to enable it to perform the Services under
this Agreement. The Company also agrees that it will act reasonably
and promptly in reviewing materials submitted to it from time to
time by the Contractor and inform the Contractor of any material
inaccuracies or omissions in such materials.
ARTICLE 4
DURATION, TERMINATION AND
DEFAULT
4.1
Effective Date . This Agreement shall become effective as of
the 19th day of July, 2007 (the “Effective Date”), and
shall continue to July 19, 2010 (the “Term”) or until
earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement.
4.2
Termination . Without prejudicing any other rights that the
Company may have hereunder or at law or in equity, the Company may
terminate this Agreement immediately upon delivery of written
notice to the Contractor if:
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the Contractor breaches section 2.2
of this Agreement;
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(b)
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the Contractor breaches any other
material term of this Agreement and such breach is not cured to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Company within thirty (30) days
after written notice describing the breach in reasonable detail is
delivered to the Contractor;
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(c)
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the Company acting reasonably
determines that the Contractor has acted, is acting or is likely to
act in a manner detrimental to the Company or has violated or is
likely to violate the confidentiality of any information as
provided for in this Agreement;
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(d)
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the Contractor is unable or
unwilling to perform the Services under this Agreement,
or
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the Contractor commits fraud,
serious neglect or misconduct in the discharge of the
Services.
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4.3
Duties Upon Termination . Upon termination of this Agreement
for any reason, the Contractor shall upon receipt of all sums due
and owing, promptly deliver the following in accordance with the
directions of the Company:
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(a)
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a final accounting, reflecting the
balance of expenses incurred on behalf of the Company as of the
date of termination; and
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(b)
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all documents pertaining to the
Company or this Agreement, including but not limited to, all books
of account, correspondence and contracts, provided that the
Contractor shall be entitled thereafter to inspect, examine and
copy all of the documents which it delivers in accordance with this
provision at all reasonable times upon three (3) days’ notice
to the Company.
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4.4
Compensation of Contractor on Termination . Upon termination
of this Agreement, the Contractor shall be entitled to receive as
its full and sole compensation in discharge of obligations of the
Company to the Contractor under this Agreement all sums due and
payable under this Agreement to the date of termination and the
Contractor shall have no right to receive any further payments;
provided, however, that the Company shall have the right to offset
against any payment owing to the Contractor under this Agreement
any damages, liabilities, costs or expenses suffered by the Company
by reason of the fraud, negligence or wilful act of the Contractor,
to the extent such right has not been waived by the
Company.
ARTICLE 5
CONFIDENTIALITY AND
NON-COMPETITION
5.1
Maintenance of Confidential Information . The Contractor
acknowledges that in the course of its appointment hereunder the
Contractor will, either directly or indirectly, have access to and
be entrusted with information (whether oral, written or by
inspection) relating to the Company or its respective affiliates,
associates or customers (the “Confidential
Information”). For the purposes of this Agreement,
“Confidential Information” includes, without
limitation, any and all Developments (as defined herein), trade
secrets, inventions, innovations, techniques, processes, formulas,
drawings, designs, products, systems, creations, improvements,
documentation, data, specifications, technical reports, customer
lists, supplier lists, distributor lists, distribution channels and
methods, retailer lists, reseller lists, employee information,
financial information, sales or marketing plans, competitive
analysis reports and any other thing or information whatsoever,
whether copyrightable or uncopyrightable or patentable or
unpatentable. The Contractor acknowledges that the Confidential
Information constitutes a proprietary right, which the Company is
entitled to protect. Accordingly the Contractor covenants and
agrees that during the Term and thereafter until such time as all
the Confidential Information becomes publicly known and made
generally available through no action or inaction of the
Contractor, the Contractor will keep in strict confidence the
Confidential Information and shall not, without prior written
consent of the Company in each instance, disclose, use or otherwise
disseminate the Confidential Information, directly or indirectly,
to any third party.
5.2
Exceptions . The general prohibition contained in Section
5.1 against the unauthorized disclosure, use or dissemination of
the Confidential Information shall not apply in respect of any
Confidential Information that:
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is available to the public generally
in the form disclosed;
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becomes part of the public domain
through no fault of the Contractor;
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is already in the lawful possession
of the Contractor at the time of receipt of the Confidential
Information; or
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is compelled by applicable law to be
disclosed, provided that the Contractor gives the Company prompt
written notice of such requirement prior to such disclosure and
provides assistance in obtaining an order protecting the
Confidential Information from public disclosure.
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5.3
Developments . Any information, data, work product or any
other thing or documentation whatsoever which the Contractor,
either by itself or in conjunction with any third party, conceives,
makes, develops, acquires or acquires knowledge of during the
Contractor’s appointment with the Company or which the
Contractor, either by itself or in conjunction with any third
party, shall conceive, make, develop, acquire or acquire knowledge
of (collectively the “Developments”) during the Term or
at any time thereafter during which the Contractor is engaged by
the Company that is related to the business of
designing and supplying security
systems for the cargo transit industry shall automatically form
part of the Confidential Information and shall become and remain
the sole and exclusive property of the Company. Accordingly, the
Contractor does hereby irrevocably, exclusively and absolutely
assign, transfer and convey to the Company in perpetuity all
worldwide right, title and interest in and to any and all
Developments and other rights of whatsoever nature and kind in or
arising from or pertaining to all such Developments created or
produced by the Contractor during the course of performing this
Agreement, including, without limitation, the right to effect any
registration in the world to protect the foregoing rights. The
Company shall have the sole, absolute and unlimited right
throughout the world, therefore, to protect the Developments by
patent, copyright, industrial design, trademark or otherwise and to
make, have made, use, reconstruct, repair, modify, reproduce,
publish, distribute and sell the Developments, in whole or in part,
or combine the Developments with any other matter, or not use the
Developments at all, as the Company sees fit.
5.4
Protection of Developments . The Contractor does hereby
agree that, both before and after the termination of this
Agreement, the Contractor shall perform such further acts and
execute and deliver such further instruments, writings, documents
and assurances (including, without limitation, specific assignments
and other documentation which may be required anywhere in the world
to register evidence of ownership of the rights assigned pursuant
hereto) as the Company shall reasonably require in order to give
full effect to the true intent and purpose of the assignment made
under Section 5.3 hereof. If the Company is for any reason unable,
after reasonable effort, to secure execution by the Contractor on
documents needed to effect any registration or to apply for or
prosecute any right or protection relating to the Developments, the
Contractor hereby designates and appoints the Company and its duly
authorized officers and agents as the Contractor’s agent and
attorney to act for and in the Contractor’s behalf and stead
to execute and file any such document and do all other lawfully
permitted acts necessary or advisable in the opinion of the Company
to effect such registration or to apply for or prosecute such
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