EXHIBIT 10.2
EMPLOYMENT
AGREEMENT
THIS AGREEMENT, effective as of
January 12, 2006 (the “Effective Date”), is made
by and between Symbol Technologies, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(the “Company”), and Salvatore Iannuzzi (the
“Executive”).
RECITALS:
A. It is the desire of the
Company to assure itself of the services of the Executive by
continuing the employment of the Executive as its President and
Chief Executive Officer; and
B. The Executive desires to
commit himself to serve the Company on the terms herein
provided.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the foregoing and of the respective covenants and agreements set
forth below, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Certain Definitions
.
(a) “Affiliate”
shall mean, with respect to any Person, any other Person directly
or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controlling,
controlled by, or under common control with, such Person. For
purposes of this Section 1(a), “control” shall
have the meaning given such term under Rule 405 of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(b) “Annual Base
Salary” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5(a).
(c) “Board” shall
mean the Board of Directors of the Company.
(d) “Bonus” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 5(b).
(e) The Company shall have
“Cause” to terminate the Executive’s employment
upon (i) the Executive’s failure to attempt in good
faith to substantially perform his duties as President and Chief
Executive Officer (other than any such failure resulting from the
Executive’s physical or mental incapacity) which is not
remedied within 30 days after receipt of written notice from
the Company specifying such failure; (ii) the
Executive’s failure to attempt in good faith to carry out, or
comply with, in any material respect any lawful and reasonable
written directive of the Board or the Executive’s willful
material violation of the Company’s Statement of Corporate
Policy and Code of Conduct, in either case which is not remedied
within 30 days after receipt of written notice from the
Company specifying such failure or violation; (iii) the
Executive’s unlawful use (including being under the
influence) or possession of illegal drugs on the Company’s
premises or while performing the Executive’s duties and
responsibilities; (iv) the Executive’s intentional
commission at any time of any act of fraud, embezzlement,
misappropriation, moral turpitude or breach of fiduciary duty
against the Company that has a material adverse effect on the
Company or that renders the Executive unable to perform any of his
material duties hereunder; or (v) the Executive’s
commission of a felony, other than as a result of vicarious
liability or as a result of a traffic violation.
(f) “Change in
Control” shall occur when:
(i) A Person
(which term, when used in this Section 1(f), shall not include
the Company, any underwriter temporarily holding securities
pursuant to an offering of such securities, any trustee or other
fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the
Company, or any Company owned, directly or indirectly, by the
stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions
as their ownership of Voting Stock of the Company) is or becomes,
without the prior consent of a majority of the Continuing
Directors, the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule 13d-3
promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended),
directly or indirectly, of Voting Stock representing twenty-five
percent (25%) (or, even with such prior consent, forty percent
(40%)) or more of the combined voting power for election of
directors of the Company’s then outstanding securities;
or
(ii) The
Company consummates a reorganization, merger or consolidation of
the Company (which prior to the date of such consummation has been
approved by the Company’s stockholders) or the Company sells,
or otherwise disposes of, all or substantially all of the
Company’s property and assets (other than a reorganization,
merger, consolidation or sale which would result in all or
substantially all of the beneficial owners of the Voting Stock of
the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to
beneficially own, directly or indirectly (either by remaining
outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the
resulting entity), more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined
voting power of the voting securities of the Company or such entity
resulting from the transaction (including, without limitation, an
entity which as a result of such transaction owns the Company or
all substantially all of the Company’s property or assets,
directly or indirectly) outstanding immediately after such
transaction in substantially the same proportions relative to each
other as their ownership immediately prior to such transaction), or
the Company’s stockholders approve a liquidation or
dissolution of the Company; or
(iii) The
individuals who are Continuing Directors of the Company (as defined
below) cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority of
the Board.
(g) “Code” shall
mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(h) “Committee”
shall mean the Compensation/Stock Option Committee of the
Board.
(i) “Common Stock”
shall mean the $.01 par value common stock of the Company.
(j) “Company” shall,
except as otherwise provided in Section 9, have the meaning
set forth in the preamble hereto.
(k) “Competitive
Business” shall mean (i) at any time during the Term and
during the 12-month period immediately following the Date of
Termination, any entity (which term “entity” shall for
purposes of this Section 1(k) include any subsidiaries, parent
entities or other Affiliates thereof) that, as of the Date of
Termination, competes with any of the businesses of the Company;
and (ii) during the period beginning on the first anniversary
of the Date of Termination and ending on the 18-month anniversary
of the Date of Termination, those certain entities (which shall not
number more than 10) designated as “Competitive
Businesses” by the Committee; provided, however, that,
notwithstanding the foregoing, Section 1(k)(ii) shall not
apply in connection with any termination of the Executive’s
employment hereunder due to the Company’s non-extension of
the Term as described in Section 6(a)(vii). In order to
effectuate Section 1(k)(ii), the Committee shall provide the
Executive with a written list of “Competitive
Businesses” on or prior to the 90th day following the Date of
Termination.
(l) “Continuing
Director” means (i) any member of the Board immediately
following the election of directors at the Company’s 2005
annual meeting of stockholders or (ii) any person who
subsequently becomes a member of the Board whose appointment,
election or nomination for election to the Board is recommended by
a majority of the Continuing Directors (which person shall thereby
become a “Continuing Director”).
(m) “Date of
Termination” shall mean (i) if the Executive’s
employment is terminated by his death, the date of his death;
(ii) if the Executive’s employment is terminated as a
result of Disability, the date provided in Section 6(a)(ii);
and (iii) if the Executive’s employment is terminated
pursuant to Sections 6(a)(iii) — (vi), the date
specified in the Notice of Termination (or if no such date is
specified, the last day of the Executive’s active employment
with the Company), in each case provided in accordance with this
Agreement.
(n) “Disability”
shall mean any mental or physical illness, condition, disability or
incapacity which:
(i) Prevents
the Executive from discharging substantially all of his essential
job responsibilities and employment duties; and
(ii) Has
prevented the Executive from so discharging his duties for any
180 days in any 365-day period.
A Disability shall be deemed to have
occurred on the 180th day in any such 365-day period.
(o) “Equity Incentive
Plan” means the Company’s 2004 Equity Incentive Award
Plan, as amended from time to time (or any other equity based
compensation plan or agreement that may be adopted or entered into
by the Company from time to time).
(p) “Executive”
shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereto.
(q) “Extension Term”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.
(r) The Executive shall have
“Good Reason” to resign his employment upon the
occurrence of any of the following without the Executive’s
prior written consent: (i) failure of the Company to continue
the Executive in the position of, and with the title of, President
and Chief Executive Officer; (ii) a material diminution or
undue dilution in the nature or scope of the Executive’s
employment responsibilities, duties or authority, or the assignment
to the Executive of duties or responsibilities that are materially
and adversely inconsistent with his then position; (iii) failure of
the Executive to be elected to the Board at any annual meeting of
the Company’s stockholders that occurs during the Term
(unless the Executive is prohibited from serving as a member of the
Board by any applicable law, rule or regulation (including without
limitation any rule promulgated by the New York Stock Exchange));
(iv) relocation of the Company’s executive offices more
than 60 miles east, or 20 miles in any other direction of its
current location; (v) failure of the Company to timely make any
material payment or provide any material benefit under this
Agreement, or the Company’s material reduction of any
compensation, equity or benefits that the Executive is eligible to
receive under this Agreement; or (vi) the Company’s
material breach of this Agreement; provided, however, that
notwithstanding the foregoing the Executive may not resign his
employment for Good Reason unless: (x) the Executive provides
the Company with at least 30 days prior written notice of his
intent to resign for Good Reason (which notice is provided not
later than the 90th day following the occurrence of the event
constituting Good Reason), and (y) the Company does not remedy
the alleged violation(s) within such 30-day period; and, provided,
further, that notwithstanding the foregoing if the Executive is
suspended pursuant to Section 6(a)(iii), such suspension (and
any corresponding diminution of the Executive’s title, duties
or compensation, or other change to the Executive’s
employment arrangements described hereunder) shall not, in and of
itself, give the Executive Good Reason to resign his
employment.
(s) “Initial Term”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.
(t) “Intellectual
Property” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 9(f).
(u) “Non-Compete
Term” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 9(a).
(v) “Notice of
Termination” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 6(b).
(w) “Option” shall
mean an option to purchase Common Stock pursuant to the Equity
Incentive Plan, as amended from time to time (or any other equity
based compensation plan or agreement that may be adopted or entered
into by the Company from time to time).
(x) “Person” shall
mean an individual, partnership, corporation, business trust,
limited liability company, joint stock company, trust,
unincorporated association, joint venture, governmental authority
or other entity of whatever nature.
(y) “Pro-Rata Bonus”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(d).
(z) “Release” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 7(b).
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“Retention Program” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 7(a).
“Term” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.
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(cc) “Voting Stock”
means all capital stock of the Company which by its terms may be
voted on all matters submitted to stockholders of the Company
generally.
2. Employment .
Subject to Section 6, the Company shall employ the Executive
and the Executive shall continue in the employ of the Company, for
the period set forth in this Section 2, in the positions set
forth in the first sentence of Section 3 and upon the other
terms and conditions herein provided. The initial term of
employment under this Agreement (the “Initial Term”)
shall be for the period beginning on the Effective Date and ending
on December 31, 2008, unless earlier terminated as provided in
Section 6. The Initial Term shall automatically be extended
for successive one-year periods (each, an “Extension
Term”) unless either party hereto gives written notice of
non-extension to the other party no later than 60 days prior
to the scheduled expiration of the Initial Term or the then
applicable Extension Term (the Initial Term and any Extension Term
shall be collectively referred to hereunder as the
“Term”).
3. Position and
Duties . The Executive shall serve as President and Chief
Executive Officer of the Company, reporting directly to the Board,
with such responsibilities, duties and authority as are customary
for such role. During the Term, the Company shall nominate the
Executive for a seat on the Board upon the expiration of
Executive’s current term as a director, and upon the
expiration of each subsequent term thereafter (or, in the event
that the Executive is not elected to the Board at any annual
meeting of the Company’s stockholders, at not less than one
annual meeting following the first annual meeting at which he in
not elected). The Executive also agrees to serve, without
additional compensation, as the chief executive officer and/or
director of any subsidiary, division or Affiliate of the Company if
so requested by the Board. The Executive shall devote substantially
all of his business time, attention and efforts, toward the
performance of his duties under this Agreement. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Executive may manage his personal investments, be
involved in charitable and professional activities (including
serving on charitable and professional boards), and, with the
consent of the Board, serve on for-profit boards of directors and
advisory committees, so long as such service does not materially
interfere with the performance of the Executive’s duties
hereunder or violate Section 9 hereof. Any boards that the
Executive serves on as of the Effective Date and which have been
previously approved shall be deemed to be continued as
approved.
4. Place of
Performance . In connection with his employment during the
Term, the Executive shall be based at the Company’s offices
in Holtsville, New York, except for necessary travel on the
Company’s business.
5. Compensation and
Related Matters .
(a) Annual Base Salary .
At the commencement of the Term, the Executive shall receive a base
salary at a rate of $1,000,000 per annum (the “Annual Base
Salary”), paid in accordance with the Company’s general
payroll practices for executives, but no less frequently than
monthly. No less frequently than annually during the Term, the
Board and the Committee shall review the rate of Annual Base Salary
payable to the Executive, and may, in their discretion, increase
(but not decrease) the rate of Annual Base Salary payable
hereunder; provided, however, that any increased rate shall
thereafter be the rate of “Annual Base Salary”
hereunder.
(b) Bonus . As soon as
practicable after execution of this Agreement, the Executive shall
be paid a supplemental bonus of $1,000,000 for exemplary
performance in 2005. In addition, except as otherwise provided for
herein, with respect to 2006 and each subsequent fiscal year in
which the Executive is employed hereunder on the last day of the
applicable year, the Executive shall be eligible to receive a bonus
(the “Bonus”), as determined pursuant to the
Company’s Executive Bonus Plan or another “qualified
performance-based compensation” bonus plan that has been
approved by the stockholders of the Company in accordance with the
provisions for such approval under Code Section 162(m) and the
regulations promulgated thereunder (collectively, the “Bonus
Plan”), and on the basis of the Executive’s or the
Company’s attainment of objective financial or other
operating criteria established by the Committee in its sole good
faith discretion and in accordance with Code Section 162(m) and the
regulations promulgated thereunder. With respect to each fiscal
year during the Term, (i) the Executive shall be eligible to
receive a maximum Bonus under the Bonus Plan equal to 200% of his
Annual Base Salary if applicable performance criteria for a maximum
Bonus are met or exceeded, and (ii) the Executive’s
target-level Bonus for achievement of target-level performance
under the Bonus Plan shall equal 100% of his Annual Base Salary.
The Bonus for each fiscal year shall be paid to the Executive no
later than 90 days following the completion of such fiscal
year. In addition, the Executive shall be eligible to participate
in any other bonus plan or program that may be established by the
Committee and that covers the Executive (even if such plan or
program does not provide for qualified performance-based bonuses
within the meaning of Code Section 162(m)), at a level
commensurate with the Executive’s position.
(c) Equity Awards .
(i) As soon
as practicable after execution of this Agreement, the Executive
shall be awarded 200,000 shares of Restricted Stock in accordance
with the terms of the Equity Incentive Plan, subject to such normal
vesting and other restrictions as the Committee shall apply in the
award agreement.
(ii) As soon
as practicable after execution of this Agreement, the Executive
shall be awarded Options with respect to 300,000 shares of Common
Stock in accordance with the terms of the Equity Incentive Plan,
subject to such normal vesting, exercise and other restrictions as
the Committee shall apply in the award agreement. The exercise
price per Option share shall be 100% of the fair market value of a
share of Common Stock on the date of grant of such Options.
(iii) For
each year during the Term after 2006, the Executive shall be
eligible to be granted Options and other equity compensation awards
at such time(s) and in such amount(s) as may be determined by the
Committee in its sole discretion, at a level commensurate with the
Executive’s position.
(iv) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in any
Option award agreement, effective immediately upon the occurrence
of a Change in Control, all Options and other equity compensation
awards then held by the Executive shall become fully vested and
exercisable with respect to all shares subject thereto.
(d) Benefits . The
Executive shall be entitled to receive such benefits (including,
without limitation, fringe benefits and perquisites) and to
participate in such employee group benefit plans, including life,
health and disability insurance policies and the Company’s
Code Section 401(k) pension plan, as are generally provided by the
Company to its senior executives in accordance with the terms of
such plans, practices and programs of the Company, at a level
commensurate with the Executive’s position. In addition, the
Executive shall continue to participate in the Company’s
Deferred Compensation Plan, as amended from time to time.
(e) Expenses . The
Company shall reimburse the Executive for all reasonable and
necessary expenses incurred by the Executive in connection with the
performance of the Executive’s duties as an employee of the
Company. Such reimbursement is subject to the submission to the
Company by the Executive of appropriate documentation and/or
vouchers in accordance with the customary procedures of the Company
for expense reimbursement, as such procedures may be revised by the
Company from time to time and to such caps on reimbursement as the
Company may from time to time impose.
(f) Vacations . The
Executive shall be entitled to paid vacation in accordance with the
Company’s vacation policy as in effect from time to time.
However, in no event shall the Executive be entitled to less than
four weeks vacation per annum. The Executive shall also be entitled
to paid holidays and personal days in accordance with the
Company’s practice with respect to same as in effect from
time to time.
(g) Automobile . During
the Term, the Company shall provide the Executive with a car
allowance of $1,350 per month.
6. Termination .
The Executive’s employment hereunder may be terminated by the
Company, on the one hand, or the Executive, on the other hand, as
applicable, without any breach of this Agreement only under the
following circumstances:
(a) Terminations .
(i) Death
. The Executive’s employment hereunder shall terminate upon
his death.
(ii)
Disability . In the event of the Executive’s
Disability, the Company may give the Executive written notice of
its intention to terminate the Executive’s employment while
he remains so disabled. In such event, the Executive’s
employment with the Company shall terminate effective on the 14th
day after delivery of such notice, provided that within the
14 days after such delivery, the Executive shall not have
returned to full-time performance of his duties.
(iii)
Cause . The Board may, with the approval of a majority of
the then-serving non-employee Continuing Directors after a meeting
(of which the Executive is provided with at least 10 days
prior written notice of the intent of the meeting and the specifics
of the grounds for Cause termination being alleged) at which the
Executive has been given an opportunity to appear with counsel,
terminate the Executive’s employment hereunder for Cause.
(iv) Good
Reason . The Executive may terminate his employment for Good
Reason; provided that if such termination is due to the
Executive’s failure to be elected to the Board as described
in Section 1(r)(iii), then the Executive shall provide the
Company with not less than 60 days advanced written notice of
such termination.
(v) Without
Cause . The Company may terminate the Executive’s
employment without Cause upon 30 days written notice to the
Executive.
(vi)
Resignation without Good Reason . The Executive may resign
his employment without Good Reason upon 60 days written notice
to the Company.
(vii)
Non-Extension of Term . The Executive’s employment
shall terminate as of the last day of the Term if either party
provides notice of non-extension of the Term to the other pursuant
to Section 2.
(b) Notice of
Termination . Any termination of the Executive’s
employment by the Company or by the Executive under this
Section 6 (other than termination pursuant to paragraph (a)(i)
or (a)(vii)) shall be communicated by a written notice to the other
party hereto indicating the specific termination provision in this
Agreement relied upon, setting forth in reasonable detail any facts
and circumstances claimed to provide a basis for termination of the
Executive’s employment under the provision so indicated, and
specifying a Date of Termination in accordance with this Agreement
(a “Notice of Termination”); provided, the Company may
suspend the Executive from his positions with pay during any notice
period so long as he is retained as an employee of the Company
during such notice period.
7. Severance Payments and
Benefits .
(a) Termination for any
Reason . In the event the Executive’s employment with the
Company is terminated for any reason, as soon as reasonably
practicable after such termination the Company shall pay the
Executive (or his beneficiary in the event of his death) a lump sum
equal to any unpaid Annual Base Salary that has accrued as of the
Date of Termination, any unreimbursed expenses due to the
Executive, and an amount for any accrued but unused vacation days
and any earned but unpaid Bonus for any fiscal year of the Company
completed prior to the date of such termination. The Executive
shall also be entitled to accrued, vested benefits under the
Company’s benefit plans and programs as provided therein. The
Executive shall be entitled to the cash severance payments
described below only as set forth herein, and the provisions of
this Section 7 shall supersede in their entirety any severance
payment provisions in any severance plan, policy, program or
arrangement maintained by the Company.
(b) Terminations without
Cause or for Good Reason . Except as otherwise provided by
Section 7(c) with respect to certain terminations of employment in
connection with a Change in Control, if the Executive’s
employment shall terminate without Cause (pursuant to
Section 6(a)(v)), or for Good Reason (pursuant to
Section 6(a)(iv)), the Company shall (subject to the
Executive’s entering into a Separation and Release Agreement
with the Company in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit A (the “Release”)):
(i) Pay to
the Executive an amount equal to the product of (A) the sum of
his then current (i) Annual Base Salary and (ii) the
greater of (1) the Bonus paid or payable to Executive with
respect to the fiscal year ending immediately prior to the Date of
Termination or (2) 50% of the target Bonus for such year, and
(B) 1.5; payable in equal monthly installments during the
period beginning on the Date of Termination and ending on the
18 month anniversary thereof; provided, however, that no
amount shall be payable pursuant to this Section 7(b)(i) on or
following the date the Executive first (i) breaches any of the
covenants set forth in Sections 9(a) or 9(b), or
(ii) materially breaches any of the covenants set forth in
Section 9(c) or 9(e), which is not remedied (if remediable) within
30 days after receipt of written notice from the Company
specifying such breach;
(ii) Continue to provide the Executive (and his dependents)
with the medical, dental and life insurance coverage in which he
(or his dependents) was participating as of the Date of Termination
(at a level then in effect with respect to coverage and employee
premiums, but subject to such modifications as shall be established
for all employees of the Company) until the earlier of
(A) eighteen months after the Date of Termination or
(B) the date the Executive first (i) breaches any of the
covenants set forth in Sections 9(a) or 9(b), or
(ii) materially breaches any of the covenants set forth in
Section 9(c) or 9(e), which is not remedie