Exhibit 10.13
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CardioMEMS, Inc.
75 Fifth Street, NW,
Suite 440
Atlanta, GA 30308
Phone (404) 920-6700
Fax (404) 885-9974
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December 12, 2005
Matt Borenzweig
Re: Employment
Terms
Dear Matt,
CardioMEMS, Inc.
(the “Company”) is
pleased to offer you the position of Vice President of Sales, on
the following terms:
1. Duties; Office
Location.
You will be responsible for
developing and implementing the Company’s sales strategy,
supervising Company’s sales personnel and managing other
resources to attain the Company’s sales and financial
performance goals. You will report to the Company’s Chief
Executive Officer, David Stern and will be a member of the
executive team responsible for overall planning and strategic
implementation. It is contemplated that your work will be based out
of your home office in LA. And that is acceptable to the company in
the VP of sales role and will travel and visit customer sites,
respective sales territories and Company’s headquarter in
Atlanta, Georgia as necessary to fulfill your
responsibility.
2. Compensation and
Benefits
Your salary shall be $250,000 per
annum, subject to payroll deductions and all required withholdings.
Your salary will be paid semi-monthly.
In addition to the above salary, you
will be eligible for a bonus payment for the calendar year 2006
calculated as follows:
Variable (commission) portion of
compensation will be renegotiated for the calendar year
2007.
Sales for calendar year 2006 X
[(Sales for 2006/$million) / (1000)]
For example, if sales for 2006
equals $15MM, you are eligible for a bonus equal to $15MM x
(15/1000) = $225,000.
Sales for calendar year is such
number as is reflected in the Company’s year-end financial
statements. 75% of bonus payments may be paid on a quarterly basis
based upon the Company’s sales for the quarter as reflected
in the Company’s financial statements. The remaining 25% of
the bonus payment shall be paid subject to year-end adjustments and
audited financial statements reflecting the sales numbers. The
balance of the 25% to be paid no later than February 1
st
2007.
You will be eligible for the Company’s
general employee benefits in accordance with the terms, conditions
and limitations of the benefit plans. The Company may modify
compensation and benefits from time to time as it deems
necessary.
3. Option Grant
After you commence employment, the
Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) will
grant you an option (“Initial Grant”) to purchase three
hundred thousand (300,000) shares of the Company’s
common stock.
In addition to the Initial Grant,
you will be eligible for two additional option grants (i) to
purchase up to one hundred thousand (100,000) shares of the
Company common stock if the Company’s sales for the six month
period ending June 30, 2006 are at least $6,775,000.00, and
(ii) to purchase up to one hundred thousand
(100,000) shares of the Company common stock if the
Company’s sales for the calendar year 2006 are at least the
target amount of $15,000,000, and (iii) to purchase up to one
hundred thousand (100,000) shares of the Company common stock
if the Company’s sales for the calendar year 2006 are at
least the target amount of $19,000,000. You will be eligible for a
pro-rated portion of the option grants provided that at least 75%
of the sales target amounts for the respective option grant have
been achieved. For example, if the 2006 sales equals $12,000,000
(more than 75% of $15MM), you will be eligible for an option grant
equal $12MM/$15MM = 80,000 shares.
All options shall be issued under
the Company’s current stock option plan (the
“Plan”) at fair market value of the stock on the date
of grant as determined by the Board. Subject to the acceleration
provision set forth below in paragraph 4 below, all option will
vest over four (4) years, contingent on your continued
employment with the Company, with 25% of the shares to vest on the
one year anniversary of your vesting commencement date, and the
remaining shares to vest monthly thereafter. The options will be
governed by the terms of the Plan and your stock option
agreement.
4. Change of Control, Termination
following Change of Control
a. Change of Control
Acceleration. Subject to
the terms and conditions set forth in this paragraph 4, the
following acceleration of vesting of the shares subject to any of
your outstanding options (“Options”) shall occur upon a
Change of Control (as defined below) provided that such Change of
Control occurs within one year of your employment commencement date
(“Commencement Date”) and you are an employee of the
Company at such time; provided, further, that if your
employment with the Company is terminated by the Company without
Cause (as defined below) within the 30-day period immediately prior
to the effective date of the consummation of the Change of Control,
then you shall be entitled to the accelerated vesting as set forth
below.
In the event of a Change of Control
within one year of your Commencement Date, such number of unvested
shares subject to your Options shall accelerate and become vested
and immediately exercisable such that at least 25% of the shares
subject to your Options are vested notwithstanding any cliff
vesting or similar requirements. Such acceleration to be effective
as of the closing date of such Change of Control. Thereafter, the
remaining unvested shares subject to the Option will continue to
vest on a monthly basis as set forth in paragraph 3 and subject to
paragraph 4(b) below.
b. Acceleration upon Termination
following Change of Control.
In the event that your employment is
terminated by the Company without Cause or by you for Good Reason
(as defined below), in either case, at any time during the 30-day
period immediately prior to the effective date of the consummation
or within one year following such Change of Control, and you
provide the required release of claims described below, then you
shall be entitled to the accelerated vesting under your Options as
set forth below:
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(i) Termination Within One
Year. If the termination
occurs within one (1) year of your Commencement Date, you
shall receive the accelerated vesting set forth in paragraph 4(a)
above and no other acceleration.
(ii) Termination Following Year
One and On or Prior to Year Two. If the termination occurs after the first
anniversary of the Commencement Date and on or prior to the second
anniversary of the Commencement Date, such number of unvested
shares subject to your Options shall accelerate and become vested
and immediately exercisable as shall equal to fifty (50%) of
all unvested shares subject to your Options.
(iii) Termination Following Year
Two and On or Prior to Year Three. If the termination occurs after the second
anniversary of the Commencement Date and on or prior to the third
anniversary of the Commencement Date, such number of unvested
shares subject to your Options shall accelerate and become vested
and immediately exercisable as shall equal seventy-five
(75%) of all unvested shares subject to your
Options.
(iii) Termination Following Year
Three. If the termination
occurs after the third anniversary of the Commencement Date any and
all unvested shares subject to your Options shall accelerate and
become vested and immediately exercisable.
(c) Definitions.
(i) “Change of Control”
shall mean the consummation of any one of the following events:
(a) a sale, lease or other disposition of all or substantially
all of the assets of the Company; (b) a consolidation or
merger of the Company with or into any other corporation or other
entity or person, or any other corporate reorganization, in which
the shareholders of the Company immediately prior to such
consolidation, merger or reorganization, own less than 50% of the
Company’s outstanding voting power of the surviving entity
following the consolidation, merger or reorganization; or
(c) any transaction (or series of related transactions
involving a person or entity, or a group of affiliated persons or
entities) in which in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the
Company’s outstanding voting power is transferred, excluding
any consolidation or merger effected exclusively to change the
domicile of the Company and excluding any such change of voting
power resulting from bona fide equity financing event or public
offering of the stock of the Company.
(ii) “Cause” for the
Company (or any acquiror or successor in interest thereto) to
terminate your employment shall exist if any of the following
occurs: (i) your conviction or a plea of nolo
contendere of any felony or any other crime involving fraud,
dishonesty or moral turpitude; (ii) your commission or
attempted commission of or participation in a fraud or act of
dishonesty or misrepresentation against the Company that results
(or could reasonably be expected to result) in material harm or
injury to the business or reputation of the Company;
(iii) your material violation of any contract or agreement
between you and the Company or any Company policy, or of any
statutory duty you owe to the Company, including without
limitation, material breach of your proprietary information and
inventions agreement with the Company; or (iv) your conduct
that constitutes gross insubordination, incompetence or habitual
neglect of duties and that results in (or could reasonably be
expected to have resulted in) material harm to the business or
reputation of the Company; provided, however, that the
action or conduct described in clause (iv) above will
constitute “Cause” only if such action or
conduct
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continues after the Board has provided you with
written notice thereof and thirty (30) days opportunity to
cure the same, except that the Company is not obligated to provide
such written notice and opportunity to cure if the action or
conduct is not reasonably susceptible to cure. The determination
that a termination is for Cause shall be made in good faith by the
Board in its sole reasonable discretion.
(iii) A resignation for “Good
Reason” shall mean a resignation of your employment after the
occurrence of any of the following events which is not corrected
within 15 days after the Company (or any successor thereto)
receives written notice from you that any of the following events
have occurred and that you assert that grounds for a voluntary
termination for Good Reason exist as a result: (i) without
your written consent, a material diminution of your duties,
position or responsibilities; provided, or (ii) without your
written consent, a reduction by the Company in your Base Salary or
Performance Bonus as in effect immediately prior to such or
(iii) without your written consent, a requirement that you
relocate from your current Los Angeles residence more than sixty
miles (unless, as a result of such relocation, your principal
place of employment is closer to your primary residence than before
the relocation).
5. Release
Requirements. To be
eligible to receive the vesting acceleration set forth in paragraph
4(b) above, you must (i) first timely execute, make effective,
and deliver to the Company a general release of all known and
unknown claims, in a form reasonably acceptable to the Company; and
(ii) not be in material breach of the Employee Proprietary
Agreement or any other agreement or contract between you and the
Company at the time of the receipt of such benefits.
6. At Will Employment.
Your employment with the Company is
an “at-will” arrangement and this offer letter
agreement does not constitute a guarantee of employment for any
specific period of time. This means that either you or the Company
may terminate your employment at any time, with or without Cause,
and with or without advance notice. This “at-will”
employment relationship cannot be changed except in a written
agreement approved by the Board and signed by a duly authorized
Company officer.
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Confidentiality and Proprietary Information
Obligations.
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(a) Proprietary
Information. As a Company
employee, you will be expected to abide by Company rules and
regulations and must sign and comply with the Employee Proprietary
Agreement, two originals which are attached hereto as Exhibit
A.
(b) Third Party
Information. In your work
for the Company, you will be expected not to use or disclose any
confidential information, including trade secrets, of any former
employer or other third party to whom you have an obligation of
confidentiality. Rather, you will be expected to use only that
information which is generally known and used by persons with
training and experience comparable to your own, which is common
knowledge in the industry or otherwise legally in the public
domain, or which is otherwise provided or developed by the Company.
You agree that you will not bring onto Company premises or use in
your work for the Company, any unpublished documents or property
(including but not limited to proprietary information) belonging to
any former employer or other third party that you are not
authorized to use or disclose. During our discussions about your
proposed job duties, you assured us that you would be able to
perform those duties within the guidelines just described. By
entering into this offer letter agreement, you represent that you
will be able to perform your job duties within these
guidelines.
(c) Exclusive
Property. You agree that
all business procured by you and all Company-related business
opportunities and plans made known to you while you are employed by
the Company, shall remain the permanent and exclusive property of
the Company.
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