-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, Abrqnnyb0HArEUrlMn+AOYPQsKKrI8bBWgPHsz+x88TuOfdnPbj+6r3b1q25dixt Du7lprthE8zLWeSoU1YwVQ== 0000897101-08-000043.txt : 20080107 0000897101-08-000043.hdr.sgml : 20080107 20080107165816 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000897101-08-000043 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20071231 ITEM INFORMATION: Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20080107 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080107 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: RIMAGE CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000892482 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT, NEC [3577] IRS NUMBER: 411577970 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MN FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-20728 FILM NUMBER: 08515752 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7725 WASHINGTON AVE S CITY: EDINA STATE: MN ZIP: 55439 BUSINESS PHONE: 6129448144 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 7725 WASHINGTON AVENUE SOUTH CITY: EDINA STATE: MN ZIP: 55439 8-K 1 rimage080084_8k.htm FORM 8-K DATED DECEMBER 31, 2007 Rimage Corporation Form 8-K dated December 31, 2007
 
 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


FORM 8-K



CURRENT REPORT

 

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF

THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): December 31, 2007

 


Rimage Corporation

(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

Minnesota

(State Or Other Jurisdiction Of Incorporation)

 

000-00619

41-1577970

(Commission File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

 

 

7725 Washington Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN

55439

(Address Of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)

 

(952) 944-8144

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code



 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

o    Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

o  Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

o  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

o  Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

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Items under Sections 1 through 4 and 6 through 8 are not applicable and therefore omitted.

 

ITEM 5.02

DEPARTURE OF DIRECTORS OR CERTAIN OFFICERS; ELECTION OF DIRECTORS; APPOINTMENT OF CERTAIN OFFICERS; COMPESNATORY ARRANGEMENTS OF CERTAIN OFFICERS.

 

Rimage Corporation (the “Company”) entered into a letter agreement dated December 21, 2007 with David J. Suden that became effective December 31, 2007. Pursuant to the letter agreement, Mr. Suden will cease serving as the Company’s Chief Technical Officer and cease serving as an “executive officer” of the Company effective December 31, 2007. Beginning January 1, 2008, Mr. Suden will be employed by the Company as its Strategic Technology Consultant at an annual base salary of $327,375 through December 31, 2008. Mr. Suden will continue as a member of the Board of Directors of Rimage until the 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until his earlier resignation, death or removal. After December 31, 2008, if Mr. Suden’s employment with the Company does not continue, Mr. Suden will be eligible for COBRA coverage beginning on January 1, 2009 for a period of 18 months, unless Mr. Suden becomes covered through another group plan. The Company will make a one-time lump sum bonus payment to Mr. Suden of $39,000, less required withholding, intended to help defray the cost of insurance premiums. The December 31, 2007 letter agreement also contains general releases in favor of the Company.

 

The December 31, 2007 letter agreement supersedes the amended and restated letter agreement dated March 19, 2007 between Mr. Suden and the Company, except that a non-disclosure and non-competition agreement with Mr. Suden will continue to remain in effect. A copy of the December 31, 2007 letter agreement is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1 and incorporated by reference into this Item 5.02.

 

ITEM 9.01

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS.

 

Exhibit No.

 

Description

10.1

 

Letter Agreement dated December 21, 2007 between Rimage Corporation and David J. Suden.

 

 

SIGNATURE

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

 

 

 

RIMAGE CORPORATION

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Robert M. Wolf

 

 

 

Robert M. Wolf
Chief Financial Officer

 

Date:  

January 7, 2007

 

 







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EX-10.1 2 rimage080084_ex10-1.htm LETTER AGREEMENT DATED DECEMBER 21, 2007 Exhibit 10.1 to Rimage Corporation Form 8-K dated December 31, 2007

Exhibit 10.1

 

December 21, 2007

 

Mr. David Suden

9955 Green valley Road

Cambria, CA 93428

 

Dear Dave:

 

This letter describes our agreement regarding your changing role with Rimage. You have made valuable and lasting contributions to Rimage during your 25 year tenure here.

 

 

1.

Your role as Chief Technology Officer will end as of December 31, 2007. Beginning January 1, 2008, your new title will be “Strategic Technology Consultant”. In that role, your responsibilities will be to provide Rimage with assistance and direction in developing a product and application roadmap for current and future optical related opportunities, to serve as Rimage’s technology expert in supporting global sales and marketing efforts, and to assist and support the President and CEO in a focused search for potential business and/or technology partners/acquisitions. You shall fulfill these responsibilities under the direction and control of the President and CEO.

 

 

2.

Your compensation package in the new role will be $327,375 on an annualized basis, to be paid through biweekly payroll through December 31, 2008. You will not be entitled to participate in any bonus or other incentive plan nor will you be eligible to receive stock options or other equity-based compensation. However, this compensation will be made without the contingencies associated with Rimage’s customary incentive plans.

 

 

3.

Your primary residence will be in California, but you will make yourself available to work in the Rimage office as needed.

 

 

4.

You will continue to be an active employee of Rimage through December 31, 2008 with all the benefits provided in connection with full-time employment, except as provided in this Agreement.

 

 

5.

Your status as Executive Officer will cease as of December 31, 2007. You will continue as a member of the Board of Directors of Rimage until the 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders or until your earlier resignation, death or removal.

 

 

6.

The Letter of Agreement related to severance and change in control matters dated March 19, 2007 will become null and void and will be superseded by this Agreement after December 31, 2007, provided the Non-disclosure and Noncompetition Agreement that you signed in connection with that Letter Agreement and dated November 4, 2004 (the “Non-Compete Agreement”) will remain in full force and effect.

 

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7.

After December 31, 2008, if your active employment with Rimage is not extended by written agreement between you and Rimage, you may continue health and certain other insurance coverages, according to state and federal law (COBRA), beginning January 1, 2009 for up to eighteen months or until you become covered through another group plan, in which case your COBRA eligibility will end. You will be responsible for the full cost of the COBRA continuation coverage. Once your COBRA eligibility expires, you will have the option of exercising your “Individual Conversion Right” to move on to an individual plan with Rimage’s health plan provider, or you may apply for an individual policy. Rimage will make a one-time lump sum bonus payment to you with your final payroll of $39,000, less required withholding, intended to help defray the cost of your insurance premiums. This will be considered taxable income to you.

 

 

8.

Your stock options will continue vesting per their original schedule through December 31, 2008. You may exercise your vested stock options at any time before the earlier of March 31, 2009 or the expiration date of such options.

 

In consideration for these benefits:

 

 

1.

You hereby release, agree not to sue, and forever discharge Rimage, its affiliated entities, and their present or former officers, directors, agents, employees, successors and assigns (collectively the “Releasees”), from any and all manner of claims, demands, actions, causes of action, administrative claims, liability, damages, claims for punitive or liquidated damages, claims for attorneys’ fees, costs and disbursements, individual or class action claims, or demands of any kind whatsoever, you have or might have against them or any of them, whether known or unknown, in law or equity, contract or tort, arising out of or in connection with your employment with Rimage, or the separation of that employment, or otherwise, and however originating or existing, from the beginning of time through the date of your signing this Agreement. This release includes any claims you may have for wages, bonuses, deferred compensation, vacation pay, separation pay and/or benefits, defamation, improper discharge (based on contract, common law, or statute, including any federal, state or local statute or ordinance prohibiting discrimination or retaliation in employment), the Minnesota Human Rights Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and any claim for discrimination or retaliation based on a protected class under state or federal law. You hereby waive any and all relief not provided for in this Agreement. You affirm that you have not caused or permitted, and to the full extent permitted by law will not cause or permit to be filed (to the extent that you are able to control such filing), any charge, complaint, or action of any nature or type against the Releasees, including but not limited to any action or proceeding raising claims arising in tort or contract, or any claims arising under federal, state or local laws, including discrimination law.

 

 

2.

You agree to abide by the terms and conditions of the Non-Compete Agreement and agree that Rimage may, in addition to other remedies provided under that agreement, withhold payments due to you under this Agreement for violation of the Non-Compete Agreement. You also agree that the benefits provided under this Agreement provide further and sufficient consideration for your obligations under the Non-Compete Agreement.

 

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3.

You agree that you will not disclose confidential or proprietary information of Rimage, or any subsidiaries or affiliates following your employment with Rimage. This includes, but is not limited to, information regarding clients or customers, information about the personal or business affairs of Rimage, or its affiliated entities, directors, officers, or employees.

 

 

4.

You agree that you will not disclose the terms of this Agreement to anyone except your immediate family members, or your legal or tax advisors unless compelled by law.

 

 

5.

During and after your employment with Rimage, you agree not to make or induce any other person to make disparaging statements of any kind, oral or written, regarding Rimage or its affiliated entities or their respective officers, directors, agents or employees, to any person or organization whatsoever, including without limitation to representatives of local, state, or federal agencies, members of the press or media, present or former employees or customers or suppliers of Rimage or its affiliated entities, or members of the public.

 

 

6.

On your last day of employment with Rimage, for no additional consideration provided to you other than the benefits provided herein, you will execute and deliver to the Company a further release of claims in the form of Exhibit A attached hereto.

 

 

7.

You agree that the terms of this Agreement and the Non-compete Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of Minnesota, regardless of the laws that might otherwise govern under applicable principles of conflict of laws thereof. You agree to consent to submit to the personal jurisdiction of the District Court of Hennepin County Minnesota or any court of the United States located in the State of Minnesota in the event any dispute arises out of this Agreement or the Non-compete Agreement or to enforce any of the terms thereof and you agree not to bring any action relating to this Agreement or the Non-compete Agreement or relating to the enforcement by Rimage of any of your obligations hereunder or thereunder in any court other than the District Court of Hennepin County or, if exclusive jurisdiction over such matter is vested in the federal courts, any court of the United States located in the State of Minnesota.

 

You may review this Agreement with an attorney of your choice. You have twenty-one (21) days from the date you receive this Agreement to consider whether you wish to sign it. You acknowledge that if you sign this agreement before the end of the 21-day period, it is your voluntary decision to do so, and you waive the remainder of the 21-day period.

 

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You understand that you may rescind this Agreement within seven (7) calendar days after signing it to reinstate claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and fifteen (15) calendar days after signing it to reinstate claims arising under the Minnesota Human Rights Act. In order to be effective, the rescission must (a) be in writing; and (b) delivered to Pamela V. Lampert, Vice President, Planning and Organization Development, 7725 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55439, by hand or by mail within the required period; and (c) if delivered by mail, the rescission must be postmarked within the required period, properly addressed to Pamela V. Lampert and sent by certified mail, return receipt requested. This Agreement will be effective upon the expiration of the required period without rescission. You understand that if you rescind this Agreement you will not continue to receive the benefits described above.

 

If this letter accurately reflects our understanding and agreement, please sign the original and copy and return the original to me.

 

Sincerely,

 

Rimage Corporation

 

 

/s/

Pamela V. Lampert

 

 

By:

Pamela V. Lampert
Vice President, Planning and Organization Development

 

 

Read and agreed to, this 31st day of December, 2007.

 

 

/s/

David Suden

 

 

David Suden

 

 

 







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Exhibit A

 

To:  Rimage Corporation

 

I, the undersigned, in consideration of the benefits provided in the Agreement dated December __, 2007, hereby release, agree not to sue, and forever discharge Rimage, its affiliated entities, and their present or former officers, directors, agents, employees, successors and assigns (collectively the “Releasees”), from any and all manner of claims, demands, actions, causes of action, administrative claims, liability, damages, claims for punitive or liquidated damages, claims for attorneys’ fees, costs and disbursements, individual or class action claims, or demands of any kind whatsoever, I have or might have against them or any of them, whether known or unknown, in law or equity, contract or tort, arising out of or in connection with my employment with Rimage, or the separation of that employment, or otherwise, and however originating or existing, from December ___, 2007 through the date of this Release. This Release includes any claims I may have for wages, bonuses, deferred compensation, vacation pay, separation pay and/or benefits, defamation, improper discharge (based on contract, common law, or statute, including any federal, state or local statute or ordinance prohibiting discrimination or retaliation in employment), the Minnesota Human Rights Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as amended, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Older Workers Benefit Protection Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and any claim for discrimination or retaliation based on a protected class under state or federal law. I hereby waive any and all relief not provided for in this Release. I affirm that I have not caused or permitted, and to the full extent permitted by law will not cause or permit to be filed (to the extent that I am able to control such filing), any charge, complaint, or action of any nature or type against the Releasees, including but not limited to any action or proceeding raising claims arising in tort or contract, or any claims arising under federal, state or local laws, including discrimination law.

 

I understand that I may rescind this Release within seven (7) calendar days after signing it to reinstate claims under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act and fifteen (15) calendar days after signing it to reinstate claims arising under the Minnesota Human Rights Act. In order to be effective, the rescission must (a) be in writing; and (b) delivered to Pamela V. Lampert, Vice President, Planning and Organization Development, 7725 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55439, by hand or by mail within the required period; and (c) if delivered by mail, the rescission must be postmarked within the required period, properly addressed to Pamela V. Lampert and sent by certified mail, return receipt requested. I understand that any rescission of this Release shall not rescind or otherwise affect the release of claims contained in the Agreement and shall only reinstate claims as provided above arising from and after the date of the Agreement to the date of this Release. This Release will be effective upon the expiration of the required period without rescission. I understand that if I rescind this Agreement I will not continue to receive the benefits described above.

 

 

 

 

Dave Suden

 

Date

 

 

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