Exhibit 10.2
EMPLOYMENT
AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT
("Agreement") made this 16th day of April, 2009, by and between
Teltronics, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its principal
office
at 2150 Whitfield Industrial
Way, Sarasota, Florida 34243 ("Company"), and Duncan Anderson, an
individual residing at 940 Contento Circle, Sarasota, Florida
34232 ("Employee").
W I T N E S S E T H
:
WHEREAS, Employee was
previously employed as Managing Director of Teltronics Europe since
August 13, 2001 and that the Employee and the Company wish to
transfer him to Teltronics, Inc. with continuity of Employment;
and
WHEREAS, the
Company desires to obtain Employee's abilities and efforts in
contributing to the Company's growth and success; and
WHEREAS, Employee
desires to accept employment with the Company and the Company
desires to employ the Employee.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements hereinafter
set forth, and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto
hereby agree as follows:
1.
Term of Employment
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the Company hereby
employs, and Employee hereby accepts employment with the Company
for a period of two (2) years commencing on the date of this
Agreement which will be renewable for an additional two (2) year
period unless either Employee or
Company sends notice of
non-renewal to the other at least thirty (30) days prior to the
expiration date of the term or renewal term, unless the term or any
renewal term is earlier terminated as hereinafter
provided.
(b) Notwithstanding
paragraph 1(a) above, this Agreement shall terminate prior to the
stated expiration date upon the occurrence of any of the events
described in paragraph 4(a) of this Agreement.
(a) During
the term of this Agreement, Employee shall serve the Company full
time and devote to the Company his full and exclusive time,
attention and energies as Senior Vice President, Sales and
Marketing of the Company, with primary responsibility as part of
the Company’s Senior Management for all of
the management aspects of the Company's North American
Sales and worldwide Marketing (“Core Responsibilities”)
and shall perform such other duties relative to his employment and
discharge such responsibilities as shall be assigned to him by the
Company, in a faithful manner and to the best of his
ability. Employee agrees that during the term of this
Agreement, he shall not serve without prior written authorization
as a director, officer, stockholder, proprietor, employee, joint
venture, consultant, investor, participant, or otherwise, in any
other business. The foregoing shall not preclude the
Employee from devoting reasonable time to civic, cultural and
charitable affairs.
(b) The
Board of Directors of the Company reserves to itself the right from
time to time to designate the officers of the Company and to assign
the duties and responsibilities of the employees and officers of
the Company, including without limitation, the office, if any, held
by Employee. In this regard, the Board or Directors may
from time to time assign additional duties to Employee, and may
from time to time assign to other employees or officers of the
Company duties now discharged by Employee provided, if the Company
removes any of Employee’s Core Responsibilities
and Employee is not promoted,
the such action shall be deemed a termination under 4 (a)
(iv).
3.
Compensation and Benefits
(a) Subject
to withholding and social security taxes and all other required
deductions, the compensation to be paid during the term of this
Agreement by the Company for the services performed by Employee
shall be a salary of $150,000 per annum, payable in equal bi-weekly
equal instalments ("Salary"). Such compensation shall be reviewed
with Employee annually and adjustments shall be made to the
compensation based on the Employee’s annual performance
review. In addition, Employee shall be eligible to participate in
any performance based incentive compensation plan which may be
established by the Company after Business Plans and Budgets are
finalized under which incentive compensation will be determined
from the net income of the Company if mutually acceptable results
are attained by Employee.
In addition Employee will be
eligible for a “Commission Plan” based on the sales
revenue of products sold in North America.
(b) Employee
shall be eligible for five weeks of vacation per year.
(c) Employee
shall be eligible to participate under and in accordance with any
and all health or medical benefit, 401(k) Savings Plan, and life
insurance plans which the Company now or hereafter may provide to
its salaried employees. The plans currently provide for
the following:
(i) Health,
dental, and flexible spending effective October 1, 2008 subject to
any conditions and/or exclusions required by the insurer of the
benefits.
(ii) Group
life insurance policy death benefit effective October 1, 2008 of
$50,000 at the cost of the Company with the option at Employee's
cost
to increase the benefit
(subject to approval by the insurer) to an amount equal to five (5)
times Employee's Salary, not to exceed $500,000.
(iii) Participation
in the Company administered 401(k) Savings Plan effective October
1, 2008.
(d) The
Company shall reimburse Employee for reasonable expenses,
including, without limitation, business travel and entertainment
expenses.
(e) Automobile
allowance of four hundred dollars ($400.00) per month ($184.62
bi-weekly).
(g) In
addition to the above, Employee shall be eligible to receive
options covering 100,000 shares of the Company's common stock
under, in accordance with and subject to the terms of the
Teltronics Incentive Stock Option Plan, as amended from time to
time in 2001 and may be considered for additional options based on
performance of the Employee.
4.
Termination
(a) This
Agreement and all rights of Employee under this Agreement shall
terminate upon any of the following events:
(i) Resignation
and/or discontinuance of services by the Employee whether by death,
mental or physical disability or otherwise;
(ii) Notice
of termination sent to the Employee by the Company at any time for
malfeasance, misconduct, wilful disobedience to the directives of
the Company, or failure to perform any of the terms and conditions
of Sections 5, 6 and 7 of this Agreement; or
(iii) Notice
of termination sent to the Employee by the Company at any time for
failure to adequately perform, in the Company's judgment, the
services, duties and responsibilities assigned to Employee by the
Company, whether or not such failure is intentional.
(iv) Notice
of termination sent to the Employee by the Company at any time
without cause.
(b) &