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Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2017
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

NOTE 13 – Related Party Transactions

 

In February, 2017, the Company entered into an employment agreement (the “Original Agreement”) with Mr. Mark Cola pursuant to which, Mr. Cola agreed to serve as the Company’s President, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer, and was entitled to receive an annual base salary of $220,000. In July, 2017,the Company and Mr. Cola entered into a new employment agreement (the “Employment Agreement”) for a two-year term (unless earlier terminated as provided in the Employment Agreement), pursuant to which Mr. Cola has agreed to serve as the Company’s Chief Technology Officer and continue to serve as the Company’s President (with the title of Co-Founder, President and Chief Technology Officer). Under the Employment Agreement, Mr. Cola is (i) entitled to receive (a) an annual base salary of $180,000 (the “Base Salary”), and (b) during each 12-month period during the term of Mr. Cola’s employment, a nondiscretionary annual founder’s bonus (the “Annual Bonus”) in the total amount of $40,000, payable and earned in 24 equal bi-monthly installments, and (ii) eligible to receive one or more additional bonuses (“Discretionary Bonuses”) in recognition of extraordinary accomplishments, provided that the decision to provide any Discretionary Bonuses and the amount and terms of any Discretionary Bonuses will be in the sole and absolute discretion of the Board of Directors.

 

Effective as of immediately prior to the Effective Date, the Original Agreement was terminated by the parties, and Mr. Cola resigned as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer and as a director of the Company. The parties agreed that the Company has no obligation to Mr. Cola to grant stock options to him pursuant to the Original Agreement, and that (i) the Nonqualified Stock Option Agreement, dated as of February 21, 2017, between the Company and Mr. Cola evidencing the grant to Mr. Cola under the Original Agreement of a stock option to purchase up to 123,750 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price per share equal to $3.48 (the “Original Option”) was amended under the Employment Agreement such that (a) any unvested portion of the Original Option will immediately and automatically vest if Mr. Cola’s employment is terminated as a result of a Termination Event (as defined below), (b) the definition of “Termination For Cause” under the Original Option was replaced with the definition of “Cause” under the Employment Agreement, and (c) upon the occurrence of a Corporate Transaction (as defined in the 2013 Equity Incentive Plan of the Company), the Original Option, if outstanding as of the date of such applicable Corporate Transaction, will remain outstanding and exercisable in accordance with its terms, except as provided in the Employment Agreement, and (ii) the Original Option will otherwise remain outstanding and exercisable in accordance with its terms.

 

Under the Employment Agreement, Mr. Cola is (i) entitled to receive (a) an annual base salary of $180,000 (the “Base Salary”), which will be subject to increase in the discretion of our Board of Directors or Compensation Committee based on its annual assessment of Mr. Cola’s performance and other factors, and (b) during each 12-month period during the term of Mr. Cola’s employment, a nondiscretionary annual founder’s bonus (the “Annual Bonus”) in the total amount of $40,000, payable and earned in 24 equal bi-monthly installments, and (ii) eligible to receive one or more additional bonuses (“Discretionary Bonuses”) in recognition of extraordinary accomplishments, provided that the decision to provide any Discretionary Bonuses and the amount and terms of any Discretionary Bonuses will be in the sole and absolute discretion of the Board of Directors.

 

Pursuant to the Employment Agreement, on February 21, 2018, the Company granted Mr. Cola under the Company’s 2013 equity incentive plan (i) a ten-year non-qualified stock option to purchase 61,750 shares of the Company’s common stock (“Option A”), and (ii) a ten-year non-qualified stock option to purchase 61,750 shares of the Company’s common stock (“Option B”, and together with Option A, the “Options”), with the Options each (a) to have an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant (i.e., February 21, 2018), (b) to vest and become exercisable in seventeen equal (as closely as possible) monthly installments on the 15th day of each month commencing on March 15, 2018, subject in each case to Mr. Cola’s continuing employment, and (c) to be on such other terms set forth in the Company’s standard form of non-qualified stock option agreement (except that the definition of “Termination For Cause” under such agreement was replaced with the definition of “Cause” under the Employment Agreement). Additionally, (x) upon the occurrence of a Corporate Transaction, all stock options of the Company held by Mr. Cola as of the date of such applicable Corporate Transaction will remain outstanding and exercisable in accordance with their terms (except as provided in the Employment Agreement and as set forth in (y) below), and (y) upon the occurrence of a Change of Control (as defined in the Employment Agreement), his unvested stock options will fully vest.

 

Under the Employment Agreement, Mr. Cola will be entitled to participate in any employee benefit and welfare plans and programs of the Company in which any C-level senior officer of the Company or its subsidiaries are eligible to participate. The Employment Agreement provides that in the event (i) the Company’s terminates Mr. Cola’s employment without “Cause” (as defined), (ii) Mr. Cola resigns from the Company for “Good Reason” (as defined), (iii) Mr. Cola resigns from the Company after the nine-month anniversary of the effective date of the Employment Agreement (the “Nine Month Period”) for any reason or no reason, or (iv) Mr. Cola dies or becomes disabled during the Nine Month Period in the performance of his duties for the Company (each of (i)-(iv), a “Termination Event”), subject to entering into a general release of all claims, (x) he will be entitled to continue to receive the Base Salary, Annual Bonus and benefits which he was receiving as of the time of termination for the greater of the remaining term of employment or a period of twelve months, with such compensation to be payable in equal installments in accordance with the Company’s normal payroll practices, but no less frequently than bi-monthly, and (y) any unvested portion of Option A and the Original Option will fully vest.

 

In August, 2017, we entered into an “at will” unwritten employment arrangement with Mr. John Rice, pursuant to which Mr. Rice serves as our interim Chief Executive Officer and interim principal executive officer, will receive a monthly salary of $9,000, and is eligible to receive medical and dental benefits, life insurance, and long term and short term disability coverage. Further, Mr. Rice is eligible under his employment arrangement to participate in the Company’s 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, with equity compensation to Mr. Rice to be determined by our Compensation Committee at a later date. Effective as of Mr. Rice’s appointment as interim Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Rice is no longer entitled to receive compensation for his service as a director of the Company during his service as our interim Chief Executive Officer.

  

In August 2017, we engaged Garofalo & Associates, LLC, a limited liability company owned and controlled by Frank Garofalo, a director of the Company, to provide services to the Company as corporate development consultant and financial advisor. Under the engagement letter agreement, Garofalo & Associates, LLC, is entitled to receive in consideration for its services a monthly retainer of $3,000 in cash during the term of the engagement (the engagement may be terminated by both parties upon 30 days’ written notice), and (i) 105,000 shares of common stock of the Company upon the closing of an acquisition by the Company of all or substantially all of the equity or assets (or a controlling interest therein) (the “Closing”) with respect to a specified entity (the value of such shares would have been $238,350 if such shares would have been issued on August 8, 2017, based on a closing price per share of $2.27 on such date), and (ii) 75,000 shares of common stock of the Company upon the Closing with respect to at least one of two other specified entities (the value of such shares would have been $170,250 if such shares would have been issued on August 8, 2017, based on a closing price per share of $2.27 on such date). As of the date of this Annual Report, there are no agreements with respect to the acquisition by the Company of any third party, and there can be no assurance that any agreements will be entered into or, if entered into, that any acquisition or other transaction will be consummated.

 

In September, 2017, we and Ron Fisher entered into Amendment No. 1 to Mr. Fisher’s employment agreement, effective August 10, 2015, pursuant to which, effective as of February 11, 2017, item 2, entitled “Performance Bonuses,” of Exhibit A of Mr. Fisher’s employment agreement was deleted in its entirety and replaced with the new item 2 that was set forth in the amendment to employment agreement. Such amendment provided that Mr. Fisher would become entitled to receive performance-based stock and cash bonuses if certain milestones were satisfied by February 11, 2018, so long as Mr. Fisher remained an employee of the Company as of the date the applicable milestone was satisfied. No such bonuses were earned as of December 31, 2017. On February 21, 2018, the Company and Mr. Fisher entered into Amendment No. 2 to Mr. Fisher’s employment agreement, pursuant to which the foregoing February 11, 2018 date was extended to December 31, 2018.

 

In September, 2017, we entered into an employment agreement with Nannette Toups, pursuant to which Ms. Toups agreed to serve as our Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, principal accounting officer, principal financial officer and Secretary on an “at-will” basis. Under the employment letter agreement, Ms. Toups is entitled to (i) an annual base salary of $110,000 (such base salary is not subject to decrease, but may be increased in the discretion of the Company’s Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors based on an annual assessment of Ms. Toups’ performance and other factors), (ii) all benefits that we elect in our sole discretion to provide from time to time to our other executive officers, and (iii) a grant under our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan of (1) a five-year stock option to purchase up to 2,500 shares of common stock of the Company with an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the agreement effective date, and vested and became exercisable in full on the Effective Date, and (2) a five-year stock option to purchase up to 47,500 shares of common stock of the Company with an exercise price equal to the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the agreement effective date, and which will vest and become exercisable on each successive anniversary date that Ms. Toups remains an employee of the Company as follows: 3,065, 7,125, 11,185, and 26,125 on the first, second, third and fourth anniversary, respectively.