Exhibit 10.2
March 16, 1998
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Dear ▇▇▇:
This letter is intended to confirm our agreement concerning the
termination of your relationship with CellNet Data Systems, Inc. (the
"Company").
1. You will submit your resignation as Vice President, Sales and
Marketing of the Company and as an officer of each of the Company's
subsidiary companies with effect as of March 15, 1998 (your "Officer
Termination Date"). You will remain an employee of the Company until March
15, 1999, at which time you will resign and cease to be an employee of the
Company (your "Employment Termination Date"). Each such action is
acknowledged to be voluntary on your part. You agree that you will make
yourself reasonably available to answer questions and to provide reasonable
assistance in connection with the orderly transfer of your responsibilities.
Between your Officer Termination Date and your Employment Termination Date
you will have no assigned duties and you will have no authority to represent
the Company or to bind the Company to any contract or other obligation. The
Company agrees that it will not make any disparaging comments concerning you
or relating to your employment with the Company. You agree that you will not
make any disparaging comments concerning the Company or relating to your
employment by the Company.
2. Notwithstanding the submission of your resignation as an officer
and/or as an employee of the Company, the Company agrees (a) to continue to
pay you your current salary (at the rate of $183,768 per year) for a period
of one year from your Officer Termination Date through your Employment
Termination Date in equal biweekly installments on the Company's normal
payroll payment dates, and (b) to continue your employee medical, dental,
vision, employee assistance, life insurance, accidental death and
dismemberment insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, and Section 125 premium
payment plan benefits during the same period, including dependent benefits,
to the extent applicable. You will not be entitled, however, (a) to coverage
under the Company's business travel accident insurance program following your
Officer Termination Date (since you will not be traveling on business for the
Company), or (b) to participate in the Company's 1996 Employee Stock Purchase
Plan, 1994 Stock Plan, or Bonus Plan following your Officer Termination Date.
Following your Employment Termination Date, you shall be entitled to such
benefits continuation under COBRA as is then available to Company employees
whose employment has been voluntarily terminated.
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3. Notwithstanding the submission of your resignation as an officer and
as an employee of the Company, the Company agrees (a) to immediately vest as
of your Officer Termination Date, 21,600 then unvested shares of the
Company's Common Stock purchased under your Restricted Stock Purchase
Agreement dated August 1, 1995, and (b) to immediately vest as of your
Officer Termination Date, your then unvested right to purchase up to 8,940
additional shares of the Company's Common Stock at $2.00 per share under your
Incentive Stock Option Agreement dated March 20, 1996. All other vesting
under your Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 1, 1995 and under
each of your Stock Option Agreements dated March 20, 1996 and August 7, 1997,
respectively, shall cease as of your Officer Termination Date. Solely for
the purposes of your Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 1, 1995
and each of your Stock Option Agreements dated March 20, 1996 and August 7,
1997, respectively, you shall be treated as having resigned voluntarily as of
your Officer Termination Date.
4. The Company hereby exercises its right to repurchase at cost ($0.25
per share) all remaining unvested shares of the Company's Common Stock
purchased under your Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 1, 1995
(32,400 shares) as of your Officer Termination Date for a total price of
$8,100, which purchase shall be settled as of your Officer Termination Date
by means of a credit in that amount against the amount outstanding under the
loan made by the Company to you for the purchase of restricted stock
thereunder (the "Restricted Stock Purchase Loan"). (The amount outstanding
on your Officer Termination Date was $41,707.06. The credit of $8,100 will
be credited first to the payment of interest amounting to $5,707.06 and then
to the reduction of principal leaving a principal balance due on such date of
$33,607.06.) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in the loan
agreement and promissory note evidencing the Restricted Stock Purchase Loan,
you shall repay in full the entire outstanding balance, including both
principal and accrued interest to the date of repayment, on or before June
15, 1998.
5. The Letter Agreement between you and the Company dated July 11, 1994
pursuant to which you were employed by the Company is hereby superseded and
terminated by this Agreement without any further obligation on the part of
the Company to you pursuant to that Letter Agreement. The Employee Agreement
Concerning Inventions, Trade Secrets and Confidential Information between you
and the Company dated August 2, 1994 shall continue to remain in full force
and effect in accordance with its terms. The Employee Severance Agreement
between you and the Company dated August 9, 1995 providing for certain
prospective benefits in the event of a change of control of the Company is
hereby terminated as of your Officer Termination Date. The Indemnification
Agreement between you and the Company dated August 30, 1996 shall continue to
remain in full force and effect in accordance with its terms.
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6. You shall be entitled to keep your present car telephone following
your Officer Termination Date without reimbursement to the Company for its
present value. The Company shall reimburse you for the reasonable cost of
removing your present car telephone should you elect to have it removed at
any time prior to June 15, 1998. You shall be responsible, however, for all
telephone charges and expenses (a) following your Officer Termination Date,
and (b) prior to your Officer Termination Date to the extent that such
expense is of a personal nature and not reimbursable as a business expense
under the Company's current policies in that regard.
7. Until June 15, 1998, you shall be entitled to use without
reimbursement to the Company for their value (a) the Company's E-Mail system
and your current E-Mail address, and (b) the Company's Voice-Mail system and
your current Voice-Mail box, in each case, provided that these are used for
legitimate purposes and in a manner not contrary to the best interests of the
Company.
8. Until June 15, 1998, you shall have the right to the continued use
of the Company's laptop computer equipment now in your possession (DAC Serial
#4429). You shall return such equipment to the Company on or before that
date in the condition received, reasonable wear and tear excepted.
9. In consideration of the severance benefits provided under this
Agreement, you hereby agree on your own behalf and on behalf of your family
members, heirs, executors assigns and other representatives to waive and
release the Company from and agree not to ▇▇▇ concerning any claim, duty,
obligation or cause of action relating to any matters of any kind, whether
presently known or unknown, suspected or unsuspected, that you or any of them
may have arising out of or in connection with your employment by the Company
or the termination of such employment, it being understood, however, that
this waiver, release and agreement not to ▇▇▇ shall not extend to (a) any
failure by the Company to provide the severance benefits contemplated by this
Agreement, (b) any failure by the Company to pay you your salary at its
current rate and to provide all of the benefits to which you are or may be
entitled to as an employee prior to your Officer Termination Date, (c) any
failure by the Company to reimburse you in full for all ordinary and
necessary business expenses incurred by you prior to your Officer Termination
Date in accordance with the Company's standard policies in that regard, and
(d) any failure by the Company to honor its obligations to you under the
terms of your Restricted Stock Purchase Agreement dated August 1, 1995 and
each of your Stock Option Agreements dated March 20, 1996 and August 7, 1997,
respectively, with the Company, as modified hereby. To the extent that the
foregoing may be deemed to constitute a general release, you should be aware
that California Civil Code Section 1542
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provides that A GENERAL RELEASE DOES NOT EXTEND TO CLAIMS WHICH THE CREDITOR
DOES NOT KNOW OR SUSPECT TO EXIST IN HIS FAVOR AT THE TIME OF EXECUTING THE
RELEASE, WHICH IF KNOWN BY HIM MUST HAVE MATERIALLY AFFECTED HIS SETTLEMENT
WITH THE DEBTOR. In order to make effective your above waiver, release and
agreement not to ▇▇▇ concerning any claim, duty, obligation or cause of
action relating to any matters of any kind, whether presently known or
unknown, suspected or unsuspected, that you or any of your above
representatives may have arising out of or in connection with your employment
by the Company or the termination of such employment, you hereby agree to
waive any rights you or they may have under said Section 1542 and under any
other statute or common law principles of similar effect.
If the above accurately reflects our agreement concerning the above
matters, please so indicate by executing and returning to us the duplicate
original copy of this Agreement enclosed herewith.
Sincerely,
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Chairman of the Board,
President & Chief Executive Officer
Agreed:
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