EXHIBIT 10.5
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
EMPLOYMENT
AGREEMENT
Coreen Sawdon
THIS AMENDED
AND RESTATED AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made and
entered into as of the 31 st day of December, 2008, by and between Shuffle
Master, Inc., a Minnesota corporation (the “Company”),
and Coreen Sawdon (the “Employee”), a resident of the
State of Nevada.
RECITALS:
A. The
Company is in the business of developing, manufacturing,
distributing and otherwise commercializing gaming equipment, games
(live, electronic and simulated), operating systems for gaming
equipment, and related products and services throughout the United
States and in Canada and other countries (the
“Business”).
B. Company
and Employee want to create an at-will employment relationship that
protects the Company with appropriate confidentiality and
non-compete covenants, and compensates the Employee for performing
her obligations appropriately.
C. The Company and
Employee desire that Employee be employed by the Company on the
terms and conditions of this Agreement.
D. The
Employee and Company have previously entered into an employment
agreement dated as of October 16, 2007 (the “Previous
Agreement”).
E. The
Company and the Employee desire to amend and restate the Previous
Agreement solely in order to make changes to comply with Section
409A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the
“Code”).
AGREEMENT
In
consideration of the mutual promises contained herein, Employee and
the Company agree as follows:
1.
Employment . The Company hereby employs Employee
as its Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer reporting
to the Chief Financial Officer of the Company and indirectly to the
Chair of the Board of Director’s Audit Committee; provided
however that if Employee is also the interim Chief Financial
Officer, then the Employee shall report directly to the Chief
Executive Officer and indirectly to the Chair of the Board of
Director’s Audit Committee until such time as a permanent
Chief Financial Officer is appointed. Employee shall
perform the normal duties of that position and as otherwise
directed as contained in Exhibit A. Employee’s
employment under this
Agreement with
the Company is for a term of two (2) years (the
“Term”), beginning on August 1, 2007 (the
“Commencement Date”), through July 31, 2009.
2.
Salary, Bonus and Benefits .
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From the
Commencement Date through July 31, 2008, and retroactively to
February 18, 2007, Employee shall be paid an annual base salary of
Two Hundred Thousand Dollars ($200,000.00), for the period January
1, 2007 through February 17, 2007, Employee shall be paid an annual
base salary of One Hundred Seventy-Seven Thousand Six Hundred
Seventy Five Dollars ($177,675.00) paid in the same intervals as
other Employees of the Company; and if employed through October 31,
2007, Employee will be eligible to receive an executive bonus in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the executive bonus
program and/or the individual performance bonus program authorized
by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”)
for other comparable senior vice president-level employees of the
Company for fiscal year 2007, with a bonus in a range of
percentages, but with a target bonus of 40% of Employee’s
base salary.
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During the
second fiscal year of this Agreement, Employee will receive an
annualized base salary of no less than Two Hundred Thousand Dollars
($200,000), and will also be eligible to participate in an
executive bonus program and/or in an individual performance bonus
program that applies to other comparable senior vice-president
level employees of the Company as authorized by the Board, up to a
target bonus of 45% of Employee’s base
salary. Employee will not, however, be eligible to
participate in the Company’s non-executive bonus
program. Employee acknowledges receipt of any bonuses or
incentives applicable to fiscal years 2005 and 2006 and any equity
grants promised to Employee in her Letter Agreement with the
Company, dated June 17, 2005. Employee also acknowledges
receipt of 5,000 restricted shares on July 17, 2007, in
anticipation of this Agreement.
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Any stock
options or restricted stock units granted at any time to Employee
shall vest in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in
the applicable grant by the Board and, as otherwise may be
applicable, with any relevant terms and conditions of the 2004
Equity Incentive Plan as amended (the
“Plan”). Employee acknowledges that any
option grants are at the sole discretion of the Board.
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Employee’s salary is set in the
expectation that (except for vacation days and holidays)
Employee’s full time will be devoted to Employee’s
duties hereunder.
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During
Employee’s employment with the Company, the Company will
promptly pay or reimburse Employee for reasonable travel,
entertainment and other expenses incurred by Employee in the
furtherance of or in connection with the performance of
Employee’s duties. Such reimbursement will be in
accordance with Company policies in existence from time to
time.
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For as long as
the Company makes the following benefits available to any
comparable senior vice president-level employees of the Company,
Company agrees to provide Employee with:
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Club Sport
Family membership;
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Premiere Care
medical services.
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Notwithstanding
any other provision contained herein, Employee shall be and is an
employee “at will,” terminable at any time, with or
without just cause or notice.
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3 .
Outside Services or Consulting. Employee shall
devote Employee’s full professional time and best
professional efforts to the Company. Employee may render
other professional or consulting services to other persons or
businesses from time to time during the Term, only if Employee
meets all of the following requirements:
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The services do
not interfere in any manner with the Employee’s ability to
fulfill all of her duties and obligations to the
Company.
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The services
are not rendered to any business that may compete with the Company
in any area of the Business or do not otherwise violate paragraph 4
hereof.
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The services do
not relate to any products or services, which form part of the
Business.
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Employee
informs and obtains the consent of the Chief Executive Officer of
the Company.
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4.
Non-competition. In consideration of the
provisions of this Agreement, Employee hereby agrees that she shall
not, during the term of her full-time employment and for a period
of twelve (12) months thereafter:
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Directly or
indirectly own, manage, operate, participate in, consult with or
work for any business, which is engaged in the Business anywhere in
the United States or Canada.
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Either alone or
in conjunction with any other person, partnership or business,
directly or indirectly, solicit, hire, or divert or attempt to
solicit, hire or divert any of the Employees, independent
contractors, or agents of the Company (or its affiliates or
successors) to work for or represent any competitor of the Company
(or its affiliates or successors), or to call upon any of the
customers of the Company (or its affiliates or
successors).
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Directly or
indirectly provide any services to any person, company or entity,
which is engaged in the Business anywhere in the United States or
Canada.
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5.
Confidentiality; Inventions.
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Employee shall
fully and promptly disclose to the Company all inventions,
discoveries, software and writings that Employee may make,
conceive, discover, develop or reduce to practice either solely or
jointly with others during Employee’s employment with
the
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Company,
whether or not during usual work hours. Employee agrees
that all such inventions, discoveries, software and writing shall
be and remain the sole and exclusive property of the Company, and
Employee hereby agrees to assign, and hereby assigns all of
Employee’s right, title and interest in and to any such
inventions, discoveries, software and writings to the
Company. Employee agrees to keep complete records of
such inventions, discoveries, software and writings, which records
shall be and remain the sole property of the Company, and to
execute and deliver, either during or after Employee’s
employment with the Company, such documents as the Company shall
deem necessary or desirable to obtain such letters patent, utility
models, inventor’s certificates, copyrights, trademarks or
other appropriate legal rights of the United States and foreign
countries as the Company may, in its sole discretion, elect, and to
vest title thereto in the Company, its successors, assigns, or
nominees.
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“Inventions,” as used herein, shall
include inventions, discoveries, improvements, ideas and
conceptions, developments and designs, whether or not patentable,
tested, reduced to practice, subject to copyright or other rights
or forms of protection, or relating to data processing,
communications, computer software systems, programs and
procedures.
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Employee
understands that all copyrightable work that Employee may create
while employed by the Company is a “work made for
hire,” and that the Company is the owner of the copyright
therein. Employee hereby assigns all right, title and
interest to the copyright therein to the Company.
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Employee has no
inventions, improvements, discoveries, software or writings useful
to the Company or its subsidiaries or affiliates in the normal
course of business, which were conceived, made or written prior to
the date of this Agreement.
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Employee will
not publish or otherwise disclose, either during or after
Employee’s employment with the Company, any published or
proprietary or confidential information or secret relating to the
Company, the Business, the Company’s operations or the
Company’s products or services. Employee will not
publish or otherwise disclose proprietary or confidential
information of others to which Employee has had access or obtained
knowledge in the course of Employee’s employment with the
Company. Upon termination of Employee’s employment
with the Company, Employee will not, without the prior written
consent of the Company, retain or take with Employee any drawing,
writing or other record in any form or nature which relates to any
of the foregoing.
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Employee
understands that Employee’s employment with the Company
creates a relationship of trust and confidence between Employee and
the Company. Employee understands that Employee may
encounter information in the performance of Employee’s duties
that is confidential to the Company or its
customers. For the Term hereof, and until the
information falls into the public domain, Employee agrees to
maintain in confidence all information pertaining to the Business
or the Company to which Employee has access including, but not
limited to, information relating to the Company’s products,
inventions, trade secrets, know how, systems, formulas, processes,
compositions, customer information and lists, research projects,
data processing and computer software techniques, programs and
systems, costs, sales volume or strategy, pricing, profitability,
plans, marketing strategy, expansion or acquisition or
divestiture
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plans or
strategy and information of similar nature received from others
with whom the Company does business. Employee agrees not
to use, communicate or disclose or authorize any other person to
use, communicate or disclose such information orally, in writing,
or by publication, either during Employee’s employment with
the Company or thereafter except as expressly authorized in writing
by the Company unless and until such information becomes generally
known in the relevant trade to which it relates without fault on
Employee’s part, or as required by law.
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6.
Termination or Non-Extension by Company Without Just
Cause
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Employee’s employment by the Company is
“at will” therefore, subject to the terms and
conditions h
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