Ironside Technologies Inc · S-1 · On 10/18/00 · EX-10.12

Filed On 10/18/00 5:30pm ET   ·   SEC File 333-48186   ·   Accession Number 1012870-0-5301

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 1: S-1         Registration Statement (General Form)                123    536K 
 2: EX-3.1      Restated Articles of Continuance                      23    100K 
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 4: EX-4.1      Registration Rights                                   22     81K 
 5: EX-10.1     Form of Indemnification                                7     38K 
 6: EX-10.2     Second Amended and Restated Stock Option Plan         16     43K 
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11: EX-10.8     Sublease Btwn Scott's Mgmt Services & Registrant       7     38K 
12: EX-10.9     Employment Agreement Btwn Registrant & William        13     38K 
                          Lipsin                                                 
13: EX-10.10    Employment Agreement Btwn Registrant & Derek Smyth    17     48K 
14: EX-10.11    Employment Agreement Btwn Registrant & Daniel         11     40K 
                          Fairfax                                                
15: EX-10.12    Employment Agreement Btwn Registrant & Lori Allan     12     40K 
16: EX-10.13    Employment Agreement Btwn Registrant & Philip         10     42K 
                          Padfield                                               
17: EX-10.14    Employment Agreement Btwn Registrant & Dale           14     41K 
                          Defrietas                                              
18: EX-10.15    Software License & Oem Agreement Btwn Registrant &    13     58K 
                          Delano Tech                                            
19: EX-10.18    Alliance Agreement Btwn Registrant & Whittman-Hart    32    118K 
20: EX-21.1     Subsidiaries of the Registrant                         1     13K 
21: EX-23.1     Consent of Independent Accountants                     1     13K 
22: EX-27.1     Financial Data Schedule                                2     14K 

EX-10.12   ·   Employment Agreement Btwn Registrant & Lori Allan

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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.12

EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT  
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THIS AGREEMENT made as of this 28th day of March, 2000                          

B E T W E E N:                                                                  

LORI A. ALLAN 
(hereinafter referred to as the "Employee") 

                                                               OF THE FIRST PART

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IRONSIDE TECHNOLOGIES INC.  
(hereinafter referred to as the "Employer") 

                                                              OF THE SECOND PART

     WHEREAS the Employer wishes to have the benefit of the Employee's
knowledge and experience as a full-time employee;                               

      AND WHEREAS the Employer and the Employee are desirous of entering
into an employment relationship for their mutual benefit;                       

        AND WHEREAS the Employer and the Employee have agreed that the terms
and conditions of the employment relationship shall be as set out herein;       

          NOW THEREFORE in consideration of the terms, conditions, covenants and
obligations herein contained (the adequacy of which is hereby acknowledged by   
each of the parties), the parties hereto have agreed and do hereby agree as     
follows:                                                                        

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ARTICLE ONE - DEFINITION  
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1.01      "Just Cause" means (i) wilful failure of the Employee to properly     
carry out her duties after written notice by the Employer of the failure to do  
so and an opportunity for the Employee to correct the same within a reasonable  
time from the date of receipt of such written notice from the Employer; or (ii) 
theft, fraud or material dishonesty or misconduct by the Employee involving the 
property or affairs of the Employer or the carrying out of the Employee's       
duties; or (iii) any material breach of the obligations of the Employee pursuant
to this Agreement; or (iv) cause as determined by a Canadian court of competent 
jurisdiction.                                                                   

ARTICLE TWO - SCOPE OF EMPLOYMENT 
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2.01      Employment: The Employer hereby agrees to employ the Employee and the 
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Employee hereby accepts such employment on a full time basis in the position of 
Senior Vice-President and General Manager North America, upon the terms and     
conditions set forth in this Agreement.                                         

2.02      Duties and Responsibilities: The duties and responsibilities of the   
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Employee shall consist of developing sales and increasing revenues on behalf of 
the Employer. More specifically, the duties and responsibilities of the Employee
shall consist of the following:                                                 

    (i)  developing existing business relationships on behalf of the
Employer with a view to increasing revenues, and  

          (ii) establishing new business relationships on behalf of the Employer
with a view to increasing revenues,               

2.03      Full and Faithful Service: The Employee shall devote to the business  
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and affairs of the Employer all of her working time, attention and ability to   
carry out the duties of her position and will ensure that she is not, at any    
time, engaged in conduct that would constitute a conflict with the interests of 
the Employer. The Employee agrees that she will, in the performance of her      
duties, promote the interest, business and reputation of the Employer and shall 
perform all such duties as are essential or conducive to the efficient          
management thereof in accordance with the rules and policies of the Employer.   

2.04      Acknowledgement: The Employee acknowledges that the effective         
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performance of her duties requires the highest level of integrity and the       
Employer's complete confidence in the Employee's relationship with other        
employees of the Employer and with all persons dealt with in the course of her  
employment. The Employee shall diligently, faithfully and honestly serve the    
Employer during the continuance of her employment hereunder and shall use her   
best efforts to promote the interests of the Employer.                          

ARTICLE THREE - TERM OF EMPLOYMENT  
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3.01      Term Period: The term of employment created herein shall be for an    
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indefinite period commencing on April 17, 2000, unless this Agreement is        
terminated earlier by either of the parties in accordance with the provisions   
set out herein.                                                                 

ARTICLE FOUR - COMPENSATION 
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4.01      Base Salary: As remuneration for her services hereunder, the Employee 
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shall be paid a base salary (the "Base Salary") at the rate of Cdn. $240,000 per
annum, less all applicable statutory deductions, which Base Salary shall be paid
in arrears and in semi-monthly installments.                                    

4.02      Incentive Compensation: The Employee shall be entitled to             
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         participate in the Employer's sales compensation plan. The Employee's
         annual target sales compensation shall be $160,000 at 100% of revenue
targets.                                                    

4.03      Benefits: The Employee shall be entitled to participate in the        
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employee benefit plans and programs which are generally made available to       
employees of the Employer from time to time.                                    

4.04      Stock Option Plan: Upon signing this Employment Agreement, the        
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Employee shall be granted an initial amount of 1,600,000 stock options, in      
accordance with the terms, conditions and eligibility requirements of the       
Employers stock option plan. In addition, subject to the discretion of the      
Employer, the Employee shall be permitted to participate in any further stock   
option grants as offered by the Employer. Upon the closing of any event that    
creates a change of control of the Employer, the stock options granted to the   
Employee shall become fully vested, exercisable and will not be subject to      
Employer's right of repurchase.                                                 

4.05      Vacation: The Employee shall be entitled to three (3) weeks vacation  
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leave during each full year that this Agreement is in effect at the Base Salary 
provided for in Section 4.01 herein. Such vacation to be taken at such time or  
times as the Employer may determine having regard to the business and           
undertaking of the Employer and having regard to the dates requested by the     
Employee. In the event that the Employee's employment is terminated, the        
Employee shall be entitled to a pro-rated vacation leave with pay for the       
portion of the year that he has been actively employed. During the initial year 
of the Employee's employment with the Employer, her vacation leave shall be pro-
rated to the date on which he commenced employment with the Employer.           

4.06      Expenses: The Employee shall be reimbursed for all reasonable pre-    
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authorized travel, business and entertainment expenses incurred by her in the   
performance of her duties hereunder, subject to such limits as may              

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          be established by the Employer and revised by it from time to time. As
         a condition to the reimbursement of such expenses, the Employee shall
furnish to the Employer receipts for expenses incurred.     

4.07      Signing Bonus: Thirty days after the start of the term of employment, 
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the Employer shall pay the Employee a signing bonus of Cdn $25,000.             

4.08      Car Allowance: The Employer will provide the Employee with a monthly  
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car allowance in the amount of Cdn $850.00.                                     

ARTICLE FIVE - TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT  
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5.01      Termination by Employer: This Agreement, and the employment           
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contemplated hereunder, may be terminated in the following manner and in the    
following circumstances:                                                        

(a)  by the Employer, at any time, for Just Cause, in which case the  
 employment of the Employee and this Agreement shall terminate
         immediately upon written notice from the Employer to the Employee. In
      the event of any termination for Just Cause, the Employee shall be
          entitled to receive any outstanding Base Salary and vacation pay which
          has accrued to the effective date of such termination. Upon receipt of
       such notice by the Employee, the Employer shall be under no further
     obligation to provide the Employee with pay in lieu of reasonable
        notice, severance pay or termination pay whether under statute or at
common law;                                                 

  (b)  upon the death of the Employee, in which case the employment of the
  Employee and this Agreement shall terminate on the date of the
       Employee's death. In the event of such termination, all outstanding
        Base Salary and vacation pay which has accrued to the effective date
of termination shall be paid to the Employee's estate; and  

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(c)  by the Employer, at any time, by providing the Employee with the 
greater of six (6) months written notice of termination of  
      employment, or pay in lieu thereof. If termination occurs prior to
       the first anniversary of the commencement of vesting of the options
     granted per Section 4.04, then 1/4 of the total number of options
  granted per Section 4.04 will immediately vest and will not be
subject to Employee's repurchase right.                     

5.02      Termination by Employee: This Agreement and the employment            
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contemplated hereunder may be terminated by the Employee for any reason and at  
any time by providing to the Employer two (2) weeks notice in writing of her    
termination of employment. The Employee shall be entitled to receive all Base   
Salary and vacation pay which accrues to the effective date of such termination.

5.03      Release of Claims: If any of the events referred to in Sections 5.01  
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or 5.02 occur, this Agreement and the employment of the Employee shall be wholly
terminated except in respect of the Employee's obligations pursuant to Sections 
6 and 7 and the Employer's rights pursuant to Section 8 which shall survive such
termination and continue in full force and effect. Upon any such termination,   
the Employee shall have no claim against the Employer for damages, wages, bonus,
termination pay, severance pay, pay in lieu of notice of termination, statutory 
or otherwise, except in respect of payment of remuneration earned, due and owing
to the effective date of termination.                                           

5.04      Reasonableness: The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that there   
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are no implied rights whatsoever with respect to the termination of this        
Agreement and the employment contemplated hereunder. The parties further        
acknowledge and agree that if the payment referred to in Subsection 5.01(c) is  
made, it constitutes a reasonable estimate of the damages that might be suffered
by the Employee for early termination of this Agreement, said amount being      
liquidated damages and not a penalty.                                           

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ARTICLE SIX - CONFIDENTIALITY 
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6.01      Confidential Information: The Employee acknowledges that during the   
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course of her employment, the Employee will be exposed to secret and            
confidential business information belonging to the Employer, its affiliates and 
associates which gives it a commercial advantage over others. Except as may be  
required by law, the Employee agrees to not use, directly or indirectly, for her
own account or for the account of any person, firm, corporation or other entity 
or disclose to any person, firm, corporation or other entity, any of the        
Employer's or its affiliates' or its associates' proprietary information        
disclosed or entrusted to her or developed or generated by her in the           
performance of her duties hereunder, including but not limited to, information  
relating to the Employer's and/or its affiliates' and/or its associates'        
organizational structure, operations, business plans, technical projects,       
pricing data, business costs, research data results, inventions, trade secrets, 
customers lists, customer prices or other work produced, developed by or for the
Employer or its affiliates or its associates, whether on the premises of the    
Employer or elsewhere.                                                          

6.02      Exceptions: The provisions of Section 6.01 shall not apply to any     
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proprietary, confidential or secret information which is, at the commencement of
the term of this Agreement or at some later date, publicly known under          
circumstances involving no breach of this Agreement or is lawfully and in good  
faith made available to the Employee without restrictions as to disclosure to a 
third party.                                                                    

6.03      Property and Documents: The Employee acknowledges, understands and    
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agrees that all memoranda, notes, records, charts, formulae, client lists, price
lists, marketing plans, office products including, but not limited to, personal 
computers, fax machines, printers and photocopiers, financial information and   
other documents made, received, held or used by the Employee during the course  
of her employment shall be the property of the Employer and shall be delivered  
by the Employee to the Employer upon request at any time during the course of   
employment or on termination of employment as hereinbefore provided. The        
Employee acknowledges and agrees that he shall not retain any copies of such    
documentation                                                                   

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without the written consent of the Employer. With respect to all confidential   
information and other documents of the Employer held by the Employee, the       
Employee acknowledges that he is in a position of trust and subject to a        
fiduciary duty to use the information only in the interests of the Employer and 
its business.                                                                   

6.04      Inventions and Improvements: Any and all inventions and improvements  
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which the Employee may conceive or make, during the period of her employment,   
relating to or in any way appertaining to or connected with any of the matters  
which have been, are or may become the subject of the Employer's investigations,
or which the Employer has been, is or may become interested, including, but not 
limited to, product design, computer software or technology, shall be the sole  
and exclusive property of the Employer, and the Employee will, whenever         
requested by the Employer, execute any and all applications, assignments and    
other instruments which the Employer shall deem necessary in order to apply for 
and obtain Letters of Patent or Copyrights of Canada or foreign countries for   
the inventions or improvements, and in order to assign and convey to the        
Employer all sole and exclusive right, title and interest in and to the         
inventions or improvements, all expenses in connection with them to be borne by 
the Employer.                                                                   

ARTICLE SEVEN - NON-SOLICITATION  
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7.01      Non-Solicitation: The Employee acknowledges that by reason of her     
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employment with the Employer, he will or may develop a close working            
relationship with the Employer's customers and clients, gain a knowledge of the 
Employer's methods of operation and acquire and be exposed to confidential      
materials and information, all of which would cause irreparable harm and injury 
to the Employer if made available to a competitor or used for competitive       
purposes. Accordingly, the Employee agrees that:                                

        (a)  the Employee shall not, for any reason, directly or indirectly,
             either during the term of this Agreement or for a period of one
(1)                                               

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             year following the termination of this Agreement, regardless of
          how that termination should occur, hire any employees of the
            Employer or induce or attempt to induce, solicit or attempt to
          solicit, any of the employees of the Employer to leave their
employment; and                                   

        (b)  the Employee shall not, for any reason, directly or indirectly,
              without the prior written consent of the Employer, either during
        the term of this Agreement or for a period of one (1) year
            following the termination of this Agreement, regardless of how
             that termination should occur, solicit or otherwise contact any
       client or customer or potential client or customer of the
             Employer which was serviced or solicited by the Employer during
        the term of this Agreement, for the purpose of selling any
              products or services to that client or customer, or for purposes
         of soliciting orders for any products or services from that
              client or customer, where such products or services are the same
               as or substantially similar to or in any way competitive with the
      products or services sold by the Employer at the time of
termination of this Agreement;                    

7.02      Reasonableness and Severability: The parties to this Agreement        
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acknowledge and agree that the scope of these covenants are, in all respects,   
and particularly in respect of time and subject matter no more than what is     
reasonably required to protect the Employer's interest. The parties to this     
Agreement further agree that if any limitation or provision contained in these  
covenants are determined to be void or unenforceable in whole or in part, it    
shall not be deemed to affect or impair the validity of any other covenant or   
provision hereof.                                                               

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ARTICLE EIGHT - INJUNCTIVE RELIEF 
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8.01      Injunctive Relief: The Employee acknowledges and agrees that in the   
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event of any violation of the covenants provided for in Sections 6 and 7, the   
Employer shall be entitled as a matter of course to injunctive relief in        
addition and without prejudice to any other remedy the Employer may have at law.

ARTICLE NINE - GENERAL  
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9.01      Headings: The division of this Agreement into Articles and Sections   
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and the insertion of headings are for the convenience of reference only and     
shall not affect the construction or interpretation of this Agreement.          

9.02      Enurement: This Agreement shall enure to the benefit of and be binding
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upon the heirs, executors, administrators and legal personal representatives of 
the Employee and the successors and permitted assigns of the Employer,          
respectively.                                                                   

9.03      Entire Agreement: This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement     
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between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof and cancels and   
supersedes any prior understandings and agreements between the parties hereto   
with respect thereto. There are no representations, warranties, terms,          
conditions, undertakings or collateral agreements, express, implied or statutory
between the parties other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement.        

9.04      Amendments: No amendments to this Agreement shall be valid or binding 
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unless set forth in writing and duly executed by both of the parties hereto. No 
waiver of any breach of any provision of this Agreement shall be effective or   
binding unless made in writing and signed by the party purporting to give same  
and, unless otherwise provided in the written waiver, shall be limited to the   
specific                                                                        

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breach waived.                                                                  

9.05      Invalidity: If any provision of this Agreement is determined to be    
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invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, such invalidity or                
unenforceability shall attach only to such provision or part thereof and the    
remaining part of such provision and all other provisions hereof shall continue 
in full force and effect.                                                       

9.06      Further Assurances: The parties shall do all such further acts and    
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things and provide all such assurances and deliver all such documents in writing
as may be required from time to time in order to fully carry out the terms,     
provisions and intent of this Agreement.                                        

9.07      Notice: Any demand, notice or other communication to be given in      
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connection with this Agreement shall be in writing and given by delivery or     
sending it by telecopy or other similar form of communication addressed:        

To the Employer:                                  
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Ironside Technologies Inc.                        
500 Hood Road                                     
Markham, Ontario                                  
L3R OP6                                           

Tel: (905) 415-3900                               
Fax: (905) 415-3901                               
Attention: Dale deFreitas                         

To the Employee:                                  
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Lori Allan                                        
69 Riverside Blvd.                                
Thornhill, ON                                     
Canada                                            
L4J 1H8                                           

Any such notice, direction or other instrument given as aforesaid shall be      
deemed to have been effectively given, if sent by telecopier or other similar   
form of telecommunications on the next business day following such transmission 
or, if                                                                          

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delivered, to have been received on the date of such delivery. Any party may    
change its address for service from time to time by notice given in accordance  
with the foregoing and any subsequent notice shall be sent to the party at its  
changed address.                                                                

9.10      Independent Legal Advice: Employee hereby represents and warrants to  
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the Employer that he had the opportunity to seek and was not prevented nor      
discouraged by the Employer from seeking independent legal advice prior to the  
execution of this Agreement and that, in the event that he did not avail        
himself of that opportunity prior to signing this Agreement, she did so         
voluntarily without any undue pressure and agrees that her failure to obtain    
independent legal advice shall not be used by her as a defense to the           
enforcement of her obligations under this Agreement.                            

9.11      Jurisdiction: This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in    
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accordance with the laws of the Province of Ontario.                            

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF this Agreement has been executed by the parties
hereto on the date first above written.                                         

SIGNED, SEALED and DELIVERED                                                    
in the presence of:                                                             

                   /s/ Lori A. Allan
__________________________               ________________________________       
W.B. LIPSIN                              L.A. ALLAN                             
IRONSIDE TECHNOLOGIES INC.                                                      

                            IRONSIDE TECHNOLOGIES INC.

                                      By: ________________________________

                                      By: ________________________________

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