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): June 1, 2017

 

 

 

SITO MOBILE, LTD.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Delaware   001-37535   13-4122844

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)  

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

The Newport Corporate Center, 100 Town

Square Place, Suite 204, Jersey City, NJ

  07301
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

 

Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (201) 275-0555

 

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report): Not Applicable

 

 

 

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:

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)
¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)
¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))
¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter)

 

Emerging Growth Company ¨

 

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introductory Note

 

On June 1, 2017, an independent inspector of elections appointed by SITO Mobile, Ltd. (the “ Company ” or the “ Issuer ”) certified certain written consents (the “ Written Consents ”) representing more than 57% of the Company’s outstanding shares of the Company’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share (“ Common Stock ”), that were delivered to the Company on May 23, 2017, pursuant to and in accordance with Section 228 of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “ DGCL ”). Upon such certification, each of the following shareholder proposals (the “ Enacted Proposals ”) became effective:

 

1. The purported amendment and restatement on March 23, 2017 by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of the Bylaws of the Company (as so amended or restated, the “ March Amended Bylaws ”) was repealed and such March Amended Bylaws were replaced with the Bylaws attached hereto as Exhibit 3.2 (the “ New Bylaws ”);

 

2. The size of the Board was set at six (6) directors;

 

3. Each of Betsy Bernard, Richard O’Connell, Jonathan E. Sandelman, Lowell W. Robinson and Joseph Beatty (the “ Former Directors ”) was removed from the Board; and

 

4. Each of Michael Durden, Itzhak Fisher, Thomas J. Pallack, Matthew Stecker and Thomas Thekkethala (the “ Incoming Directors ”) was elected to serve as a director of the Issuer.

 

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangement of Certain Officers.

 

Removal of Former Directors

 

As a result of the Enacted Proposals, each of the Former Directors – Betsy J. Bernard, Joseph A. Beatty, Lowell W. Robinson, Richard J. O’Connell, Jr., and Jonathan E. Sandelman – was removed from the Board, effective June 1, 2017.

 

Appointment of Incoming Directors

 

As a result of the Enacted Proposals, each of the Incoming Directors – Michael Durden, Itzhak Fisher, Thomas J. Pallack, Matthew Stecker and Thomas Thekkethala – was elected as a member of the Board, effective June 1, 2017. In addition, Mr. Brent Rosenthal, who served as a member of the Board prior to the effectiveness of the Enacted Proposals and was not removed as a director of the Company, will continue to serve as a member of the Board.

 

The Company expects to announce committee appointments for each of the Incoming Directors in the coming days. To the extent that any information called for by Item 5.02(c)(3) is not determined or is unavailable, the Company will provide such information, if required, in an amendment to this Form 8-K within four (4) business days after the information is determined or becomes available.

 

None of the Incoming Directors has reportable transactions under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. There are no understandings or arrangements between any of the Incoming Directors and any other persons pursuant to which any of them were appointed as a member of the Board. There are no family relationships between any of the Incoming Directors and any other director or any executive officer of the Company. Each of the Incoming Directors except Mr. Pallack, who will serve as the Company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer, qualifies as an independent director under the requirements of NASDAQ.

 

 

 

 

The newly-constituted Board expects to determine compensation of non-employee directors in the near future.

 

Biographical information for each of the Incoming Directors is included on Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Removal of Executive Officers

 

On June 1, 2017, immediately following the effectiveness of the Enacted Proposals, the Board removed Richard O’Connell, Jr. as Interim Chief Executive Officer and Secretary of the Company, and Lawrence Firestone as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

 

Appointment of Interim Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer

 

On June 1, 2017, immediately following the effectiveness of the Enacted Proposals, the Board appointed Thomas J. Pallack as the Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Mark Del Priore as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of the Company.

 

As of the date hereof, there are no material plans, contracts or arrangements relating to the compensation of Mr. Pallack or Mr. Del Priore as officers of the Company. There is no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Pallack or Mr. Del Priore and any other person pursuant to which either of them was selected as an officer of the Company. There are no family relationships between Mr. Pallack or Mr. Del Priore and any director or executive officer of the Company, and neither Mr. Pallack nor Mr. Del Priore is party to a related party transaction within the meaning of Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.

 

Biographical information for each of Messrs. Pallack and Del Priore is included on Exhibit 99.1 hereto and incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

 

As a result of the Enacted Proposals, the Company’s Bylaws have been amended and restated effective June 1, 2017. A summary of the material changes to the March Amended Bylaws, as now reflected in the New Bylaws, is set forth below:

 

· The New Bylaws remove certain procedural matters relating to the requirements for any business to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholders, including, but not limited to, the prerequisites for a stockholder to bring any proposal at an annual meeting of stockholders;

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· The New Bylaws remove certain provisions related to the advance notice of stockholder proposals required to be submitted to the Company in connection with business intended to be brought at an annual meeting of stockholders;

 

· The New Bylaws remove certain procedural matters relating to the requirements for any director nominations to be brought before a stockholders’ meeting, including, but not limited to, the prerequisites for a stockholder to bring a proposed director nomination at a stockholders’ meeting;

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· The New Bylaws remove certain provisions related to the advance notice of proposed director nominations;

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· The New Bylaws limit the flexibility and discretion to the chairman of a meeting of the Company’s stockholders to set rules for the conduct of any such meeting;

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· The New Bylaws remove certain procedural provisions with respect to stockholders’ meetings including, but not limited to, the organization and conduct of the meeting, meeting protocol, the retention of inspectors of

 

 

 

 

election for such meetings, proxies for such meetings, the appointment of a presiding officer for such meetings and the appointment of a secretary for such meetings;

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· The New Bylaws remove certain provisions that specified that for business to be properly brought before a special meeting of stockholders, it must be (i) specified in the Company’s notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof), (ii) if not specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) provided by or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee thereof), otherwise properly brought before the special meeting by or at the direction of the Board (or any duly authorized committee of the Board) or the Chairman of the Board (if any), or (iii) with respect to the election of directors, provided that the Board has called a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more directors to the Board, by any stockholder of the Company who complied in all respects with the requirements of the advance notice provisions of the New Bylaws;

 

· The New Bylaws remove certain procedures for actions taken by stockholders by written consent, including procedures for stockholders to request that the Board set a record date for determining stockholders entitled to take action by written consent;

 

· The New Bylaws remove certain procedures that require that any stockholder-proposed bylaw amendments must be specifically identified in a notice of stockholder meetings provided in the notice of the stockholders’ meeting, along with the text of any such proposed amendment and/or any resolution calling for any such amendment;

 

· The New Bylaws remove certain provisions relating to electronic transmissions and communications, including permitting the participation by directors and stockholders in meetings by means of remote communications;

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· The New Bylaws remove the express ability of the Board to postpone or cancel any previously scheduled annual or special meeting of the stockholders by resolution of the Board upon public notice given prior to the time previously scheduled for such meeting of stockholders;

 

· The New Bylaws remove the revised section of the March Amended Bylaws regarding the indemnification that the Corporation provides to its directors, officers and other agents that clarified the type of proceedings that are indemnified, the expenses that are reimbursable, the persons who are indemnifiable, the capacity that the person needs to be acting in to be indemnified and the process that needs to be followed in determining whether indemnification is proper in a particular circumstance. Additional provisions were removed that were meant to expressly avoid duplicate payments to indemnified persons, provide that the Company shall be subrogated to all rights of recovery of any person entitled to indemnification and provide that the conduct of one indemnified person would not be imputed to another;

 

· The New Bylaws modify the section of the March Amended Bylaws that provides that the number of directors of the Company shall be fixed solely and exclusively by resolution duly adopted from time to time by the Board, and includes a provision that states that the number of directors may be fixed from time to time by action of the stockholders or of the directors, or, if the number of directors is not fixed, to provide that the number shall be one (1);

 

· The New Bylaws added a provision that permits any vacancy in the Board in the interim between annual meetings of stockholders or of special meetings of stockholders called for the election of directors to be filled by a vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of each class or series of voting stock, present in person or by proxy, or acting by written consent in lieu of a meeting, then entitled to vote at an election of directors.

 

The foregoing summary of the New Bylaws is qualified in its entirety by reference to the New Bylaws, a copy of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 3.2 and incorporated herein by reference.

 

 

 

 

Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

 

On June 1, 2017, an independent inspector of elections appointed by the Company certified the Written Consents, representing more than 57% of the Company’s outstanding shares of Common Stock, that were delivered to the Company on May 23, 2017, pursuant to and in accordance with Section 228 of the DGCL. Upon such certification, each of the Enacted Proposals became effective, as discussed below.

 

Brokers did not have discretionary authority with respect to voting on any of the Enacted Proposals and, as a result, there could be no broker non-votes.

 

· Proposal 1 : Repeal the March Amended Bylaws to return the Bylaws to the form in effect immediately prior to such amendment and restatement other than to include a provision that permits any vacancy on the Board occurring between annual meetings of stockholders or of special meetings of stockholders called for the election of directors, resulting from the removal of one or more directors, for cause or without cause, or from newly created directorships, to be filled by the vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of each class or series of voting stock, present in person or by proxy, or acting by written consent in lieu of a meeting, then entitled to vote at an election of directors.

 

Consent     Withhold Consent     Abstain  
  11,963,654       13,806       21,018  

 

· Proposal 2 : Set the size of the Board at six (6) directors notwithstanding any additions or subtractions of directors to or from the Board between April 12, 2017 and the effectiveness of the adoption of the Enacted Proposals.

 

Consent     Withhold Consent     Abstain  
  11,963,679       13,806       20,993  

 

· Proposal 3 : Remove the following members of the Board: Betsy Bernard, Richard O’Connell, Jonathan E. Sandelman, Lowell W. Robinson and Joseph Beatty.

 

Consent     Withhold Consent     Abstain  
  11,963,654       13,806       21,018  

 

· Proposal 4 : Elect the following directors to fill the vacancies on the Board resulting from the removal of the Former Directors pursuant to Proposal 3, each to serve, if elected, until the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 2018.

 

    Consent     Withhold Consent  
             
Michael Durden     11,964,247       34,231  
                 
Itzhak Fisher     11,963,759       34,719  
                 
Thomas J. Pallack     11,963,759       34,719  
                 
Matthew Stecker     11,963,759       34,719  
                 
Thomas Thekkethala     11,963,759       34,719  

 

 

 

 

Item 8.01 Other Events.

 

Postponement of Annual Meeting of Stockholders

 

On June 5, 2017, the Company announced that, in light of the election of directors resulting from the Enacted Proposals, the 2017 Annual Meeting of Stockholders previously scheduled to take place on June 27, 2017 has been postponed until a date in 2018 to be established by the Board.

 

Delivery of Stockholder Notice Pursuant to Section 228(e) of the DGCL

 

On June 5, 2017, the Company transmitted a copy of a notice pursuant to Section 228(e) of the DGCL to all stockholders of record (the “ Stockholder Notice ”). A copy of the Stockholder Notice is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2.

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d) Exhibits.

 

Exhibit Number
     
3.2   Amended and Restated Bylaws of SITO Mobile, Ltd.
     
99.1    Biographical Information for Incoming Directors and New Executive Officers
     
99.2   Notice to Stockholders of SITO Mobile, Ltd. dated June 5, 2017
     
99.3    Press Release dated June 5, 2017

 

 

 

 

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.

 

  SITO MOBILE, LTD.
  (Registrant)
   
Date: June 5, 2017 /s/ Thomas J. Pallack
  Name: Thomas J. Pallack
  Title: Interim Chief Executive Officer

 

 

 

 

Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit Number
     
3.2   Amended and Restated Bylaws of SITO Mobile, Ltd.
     
99.1   Biographical Information for Incoming Directors and New Executive Officers
     
99.2   Notice to Stockholders of SITO Mobile, Ltd. dated June 5, 2017
     
99.3   Press Release dated June 5, 2017

 

 

Exhibit 3.2

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED BYLAWS OF

SITO MOBILE, LTD.
(a Delaware corporation)

 

 

 

ARTICLE I
STOCKHOLDERS

 

1. CERTIFICATES REPRESENTING STOCK. Certificates representing stock in the corporation shall be signed by, or in the name of, the corporation by the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Directors, if any, or by the President or a Vice-President and by the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer or the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the corporation. Any or all the signatures on any such certificate may be a facsimile. In case any officer, transfer agent, or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed upon a certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent, or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if such person were such officer, transfer agent, or registrar at the date of issue.

Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue more than one class of stock or more than one series of any class of stock, and whenever the corporation shall issue any shares of its stock as partly paid stock, the certificates representing shares of any such class or series or of any such partly paid stock shall set forth thereon the statements prescribed by the General Corporation Law. Any restrictions on the transfer or registration of transfer of any shares of stock of any class or series shall be noted conspicuously on the certificate representing such shares.

The corporation may issue a new certificate of stock or uncertificated shares in place of any certificate theretofore issued by it, alleged to have been lost, stolen, or destroyed, and the Board of Directors may require the owner of the lost, stolen, or destroyed certificate, or such owner’s legal representative, to give the corporation a bond sufficient to indemnify the corporation against any claim that may be made against it on account of the alleged loss, theft, or destruction of any such certificate or the issuance of any such new certificate or uncertificated shares.

2. UNCERTIFICATED SHARES. Subject to any conditions imposed by the General Corporation Law, the Board of Directors of the corporation may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of the stock of the corporation shall be uncertificated shares. Within a reasonable time after the issuance or transfer of any uncertificated shares, the corporation shall send to the registered owner thereof any written notice prescribed by the General Corporation Law.

3. FRACTIONAL SHARE INTERESTS. The corporation may, but shall not be required to, issue fractions of a share. If the corporation does not issue fractions of a share, it shall (1) arrange for the disposition of fractional interests by those entitled thereto, (2) pay in cash the fair value of fractions of a share as of the time when those entitled to receive such fractions are determined, or (3) issue scrip or warrants in registered form (either represented by a certificate or uncertificated) or bearer form (represented by a certificate) which shall entitle the holder to receive a full share upon the surrender of such scrip or warrants aggregating a full share. A certificate for a fractional share or an uncertificated fractional share shall, but scrip or warrants shall not unless otherwise provided therein, entitle the holder to exercise voting rights, to receive dividends thereon, and to participate in any of the assets of the corporation in the event of liquidation. The Board of Directors may cause scrip or warrants to be issued subject to the conditions that they shall become void if not exchanged for certificates representing the full shares or uncertificated full shares before a specified date, or subject to the conditions that the shares for which scrip or warrants are exchangeable may be sold by the corporation and the proceeds thereof distributed to the holders of scrip or warrants, or subject to any other conditions which the Board of Directors may impose.

4. STOCK TRANSFERS. Upon compliance with provisions restricting the transfer or registration of transfer of shares of stock, if any, transfers or registration of transfers of shares of stock of the corporation shall be made only on the stock ledger of the corporation by the registered holder thereof, or by the registered holder’s attorney thereunto authorized by power of attorney duly executed and filed with

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the Secretary of the corporation or with a transfer agent or a registrar, if any, and, in the case of shares represented by certificates, on surrender of the certificate or certificates for such shares of stock properly endorsed and the payment of all taxes due thereon.

5. RECORD DATE FOR STOCKHOLDERS. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which record date shall not be more than sixty nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting. If no record date is fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the Board of Directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not proceed the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which date shall not be more than ten days after the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors. If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors, the record date for determining the stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board of Directors is required by the General Corporation Law, shall be the first date on which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or proposed to be taken is delivered to the corporation by delivery to its principal place of business or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the book in which proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded. If no record date has been fixed by the Board of Directors and prior action by the Board of Directors is required by the General Corporation Law, the record date for determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution taking such prior action. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights or the stockholders entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion, or exchange of stock, or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution fixing the record date is adopted, and which record date shall be not more than sixty days prior to such action. If no record date is fixed, the record date for determining stockholders for any such purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution relating thereto.

6. MEANING OF CERTAIN TERMS. As used herein in respect of the right to notice of a meeting of stockholders or a waiver thereof or to participate or vote thereat or to consent or dissent in writing in lieu of a meeting, as the case may be, the term “share” or “shares” or “share of stock” or “shares of stock” or “stockholder” or “stockholders” refers to an outstanding share or shares of stock and to a holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of stock when the corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares of stock, and said reference is also intended to include any outstanding share or shares of stock and any holder or holders of record of outstanding shares of stock of any class upon which or upon whom the certificate of incorporation confers such rights where there are two or more classes or series of shares of stock or upon which or upon whom the General Corporation Law confers such rights notwithstanding that the certificate of incorporation may provide for more than one class or series of shares of stock, one or more of which are limited or denied such rights thereunder; provided, however, that no such right shall vest in the event of an increase or a decrease in the authorized number of shares of stock of any class or series which is otherwise denied voting rights under the provisions of the certificate of incorporation, except as any provision of law may otherwise require.

7. STOCKHOLDER MEETINGS.

— TIME. The annual meeting shall be held on the date and at the time fixed, from time to time, by the directors, provided, that the first annual meeting shall be held on a date within thirteen months after the

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organization of the corporation, and each successive annual meeting shall be held on a date within thirteen months after the date of the preceding annual meeting. A special meeting shall be held on the date and at the time fixed by the directors.

— PLACE. Annual meetings and special meetings may be held at such place, either within or without the State of Delaware, as the directors may, from time to time, fix. Whenever the directors shall fail to fix such place, the meeting shall be held at the registered office of the corporation in the State of Delaware. The board of directors may also, in its sole discretion, determine that the meeting shall not be held at any place, but may instead be held solely by means of remote communication as authorized by Section 211(a) (2) of the Delaware General Corporation Law. If a meeting by remote communication is authorized by the board of directors in its sole discretion, and subject to guidelines and procedures as the board of directors may adopt, stockholders and proxyholders not physically present at a meeting of stockholders may, by means of remote communication participate in a meeting of stockholders and be deemed present in person and vote at a meeting of stockholders whether such meeting is to be held at a designated place or solely by means of remote communication, provided that (a) the corporation shall implement reasonable measures to verify that each person deemed present and permitted to vote at the meeting by means of remote communication is a stockholder or proxyholder, (b) the corporation shall implement reasonable measures to provide such stockholders and proxyholders a reasonable opportunity to participate in the meeting and to vote on matters submitted to the stockholders, including an opportunity to read or hear the proceedings of the meeting substantially concurrently with such proceedings, and (c) if any stockholder or proxyholder votes or takes other action at the meeting by means of remote communication, a record of such vote or other action shall be maintained by the corporation.

— CALL. Annual meetings and special meetings may be called by the directors or by any officer instructed by the directors to call the meeting.

— NOTICE OR WAIVER OF NOTICE. Written notice of all meetings shall be given, which shall state the place, if any, date, and hour of the meeting, the means of remote communication, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such meeting, and in the case of a special meeting, the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called. The notice of an annual meeting shall state that the meeting is called for the election of directors and for the transaction of other business which may properly come before the meeting, and shall (if any other action which could be taken at a special meeting is to be taken at such annual meeting) state the purpose or purposes. The notice of any meeting shall also include, or be accompanied by, any additional statements, information, or documents prescribed by the General Corporation Law. Except as otherwise provided by the General Corporation Law, the written notice of any meeting shall be given not less than ten days nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. If mailed, notice is given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid, directed to the stockholder at such stockholder’s address as it appears on the records of the corporation. If a meeting is adjourned to another time or place, notice need not be given of the adjourned meeting if the time, place, if any, thereof, and the means of remote communications, if any, by which stockholders and proxyholders may be deemed to be present in person and vote at such adjourned meeting are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting the corporation may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting; a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. Whenever notice is required to be given under the Delaware General Corporation Law, certificate of incorporation or bylaws, a written waiver signed by the person entitled to notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a stockholder at a meeting of stockholders shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the stockholder attends the meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the stockholders need be specified in any written waiver of notice or any waiver by electronic transmission unless so required by the certificate of incorporation or these bylaws.

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— STOCKHOLDER LIST. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, provided that the information required to gain access to such list is provided with the notice of the meeting or during ordinary business hours at the principal place of business of the corporation. In the event that the corporation determines to make the list available on an electronic network, the corporation may take reasonable steps to ensure that such information is available only to stockholders of the corporation. If the meeting is to be held at a place, then the list shall be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present. If the meeting is to be held solely by means of remote communication, then the list shall also be open to the examination of any stockholder during the whole time of the meeting on a reasonably accessible electronic network, and the information required to access such list shall be provided with the notice of the meeting. The stock ledger shall be the only evidence as to who are the stockholders entitled to examine the stock ledger, the list required by this section or the books of the corporation, or to vote in person or by proxy at any meeting of stockholders.

— CONDUCT OF MEETING. Meetings of the stockholders shall be presided over by one of the following officers in the order of seniority and if present and acting — the Chairperson of the Board, if any, the Vice-Chairperson of the Board, if any, the President, a Vice-President, or, if none of the foregoing is in office and present and acting, by a chairperson to be chosen by the stockholders. The Secretary of the corporation, or in such Secretary’s absence, an Assistant Secretary, shall act as secretary of every meeting, but if neither the Secretary nor an Assistant Secretary is present the chairperson of the meeting shall appoint a secretary of the meeting.

— PROXY REPRESENTATION. Each stockholder entitled to vote at a meeting of stockholders or to express consent or dissent to corporate action in writing without a meeting may authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder by proxy, but no such proxy shall be voted or acted upon after 3 years from its date, unless the proxy provides for a longer period. A stockholder may execute a writing authorizing another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy. Execution may be accomplished by the stockholder or such stockholder’s authorized officer, director, employee or agent signing such writing or causing such person’s signature to be affixed to such writing by any reasonable means including, but not limited to, by facsimile signature. A stockholder may also authorize another person or persons to act for such stockholder as proxy by transmitting or authorizing the transmission of a telegram, cablegram, or other means of electronic transmission to the person who will be the holder of the proxy or to a proxy solicitation firm, proxy support service organization or like agent duly authorized by the person who will be the holder of the proxy to receive such transmission, provided that any such telegram, cablegram or other means of electronic transmission must either set forth or be submitted with information from which it can be determined that the telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission was authorized by the stockholder. If it is determined that such telegrams, cablegrams or other electronic transmissions are valid, the inspectors or, if there are no inspectors, such other persons making the determination shall specify the information upon which they relied. Any copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reliable reproduction of the writing or transmission created pursuant to Section 212(c) of the Delaware General Corporation Law may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing or transmission for any and all purposes for which the original writing or transmission could be used, provided that such copy, facsimile telecommunication or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing or transmission. A duly executed proxy shall be irrevocable if it states that it is irrevocable and, if, and only as long as, it is coupled with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A proxy may be made irrevocable regardless of whether the interest with which it is coupled is an interest in the stock itself or an interest in the corporation generally.

— INSPECTORS. The directors, in advance of any meeting, may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors of election to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If an inspector or inspectors are not appointed, the person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors. In case any person who may be appointed as an inspector fails to appear or act, the vacancy may be filled by appointment made by the directors in advance of the meeting or at the meeting by the person presiding

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thereat. Each inspector, if any, before entering upon the discharge of duties of inspector, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of such inspector’s ability. The inspectors, if any, shall determine the number of shares of stock outstanding and the voting power of each, the shares of stock represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum, the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots, or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes, ballots, or consents, determine the result, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders. On request of the person presiding at the meeting, the inspector or inspectors, if any, shall make a report in writing of any challenge, question, or matter determined by such inspector or inspectors and execute a certificate of any fact found by such inspector or inspectors. Except as may otherwise be required by subsection (e) of Section 231 of the General Corporation Law, the provisions of that Section shall not apply to the corporation.

— QUORUM. The holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of stock shall constitute a quorum at a meeting of stockholders for the transaction of any business. The stockholders present may adjourn the meeting despite the absence of a quorum.

— VOTING. Each share of stock shall entitle the holder thereof to one vote. Directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors. Any other action shall be authorized by a majority OI the votes cast except where the General Corporation Law prescribes a different percentage of votes and/or a different exercise of voting power, and except as may be otherwise prescribed by the provisions of the certificate of incorporation and these Bylaws. In the election of directors, and for any other action, voting need not be by ballot.

8. STOCKHOLDER ACTION WITHOUT MEETINGS. Except as any provision of the General Corporation Law may otherwise require, any action required by the General Corporation Law to be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders, or any action which may be taken at any annual or special meeting of stockholders, may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice and without a vote, if a consent in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were present and voted. A telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission consenting to an action to be taken and transmitted by a stockholder or proxyholder, or by a person or persons authorized to act for a stockholder or proxyholder, shall be deemed to be written, signed and dated for the purposes of this section, provided that any such telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission sets forth or is delivered with information from which the corporation can determine that the telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission was transmitted by the stockholder or proxyholder or by a person or persons authorized to act for the stockholder or proxyholder and the date on which such stockholder or proxyholder or authorized person or persons transmitted such telegram, cablegram or electronic transmission. The date on which such telegram, cablegram or electronic transmission is transmitted shall be deemed to be the date on which such consent was signed. No consent given by telegram, cablegram or other electronic transmission shall be deemed to have been delivered until such consent is reproduced in paper form and until such paper shall be delivered to the corporation by delivery to its principal place of business or an officer or agent of the corporation having custody of the book in which the proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded, to the extent and in the manner provided by resolution of the board of directors of the corporation. Any copy, facsimile or other reliable reproduction of a consent in writing may be substituted or used in lieu of the original writing for any and all purposes for which the original writing could be used, provided that such copy, facsimile or other reproduction shall be a complete reproduction of the entire original writing. Prompt notice of the taking of the corporate action without a meeting by less than unanimous written consent shall be given to those stockholders who have not consented in writing. Action taken pursuant to this paragraph shall be subject to the provisions of Section 228 of the General Corporation Law.

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ARTICLE II
DIRECTORS

 

l. FUNCTIONS AND DEFINITION. The business and affairs of the corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the Board of Directors of the corporation. The Board of Directors shall have the authority to fix the compensation of the members thereof. The use of the phrase “whole board” herein refers to the total number of directors which the corporation would have if there were no vacancies.

2. QUALIFICATIONS AND NUMBER. A director need not be a stockholder, a citizen of the United States, or a resident of the State of Delaware. The initial Board of Directors shall consist of one (1) person. Thereafter the number of directors constituting the whole board shall be at least one. Subject to the foregoing limitation and except for the first Board of Directors, such number may be fixed from time to time by action of the stockholders or of the directors, or, if the number is not fixed, the number shall be one (1). The number of directors may be increased or decreased by action of the stockholders or of the directors.

3. ELECTION AND TERM. The first Board of Directors, unless the members thereof shall have been named in the certificate of incorporation, shall be elected by the incorporator or incorporators and shall hold office until the first annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal. Any director may resign at any time upon notice given in writing or by electronic transmission to the corporation. Thereafter, directors who are elected at an annual meeting of stockholders, and directors who are elected in the interim to fill vacancies and newly created directorships, shall hold office until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until their successors are elected and qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal. Except as the General Corporation Law may otherwise require, in the interim between annual meetings of stockholders or of special meetings of stockholders called for the election of directors and/or for the removal of one or more directors and for the filling of any vacancy in that connection, newly created directorships and any vacancies in the Board of Directors, including unfilled vacancies resulting from the removal of directors for cause or without cause, may be filled by the vote of a majority of the remaining directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by the sole remaining director or by a vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of each class of shares of voting stock, present in person or by proxy, or acting by written consent then entitled to vote at an election of directors.

4. MEETINGS.

— TIME. Meetings shall be held at such time as the Board shall fix, except that the first meeting of a newly elected Board shall be held as soon after its election as the directors may conveniently assemble.

— PLACE. Meetings shall be held at such place within or without the State of Delaware as shall be fixed by the Board.

— CALL. No call shall be required for regular meetings for which the time and place have been fixed. Special meetings may be called by or at the direction of the Chairperson of the Board, if any, the Vice-Chairperson of the Board, if any, of the President, or of a majority of the directors in office.

— NOTICE OR ACTUAL OR CONSTRUCTIVE WAIVER. No notice shall be required for regular meetings for which the time and place have been fixed. Written, oral or any other mode of notice of the time and place shall be given for special meetings in sufficient time for the convenient assembly of the directors thereat. Whenever notice is required to be given under the Delaware General Corporation Law, certificate of incorporation or bylaws, a written waiver signed by the person entitled to notice, or a waiver by electronic transmission by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of any such person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when such person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any regular or special meeting of the directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice.

— QUORUM AND ACTION. A majority of the whole Board shall constitute a quorum except when a vacancy or vacancies prevents such majority, whereupon a majority of the directors in office shall constitute a quorum, provided, that such majority shall constitute at least one-third of the whole Board. A

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majority of the directors present, whether or not a quorum is present, may adjourn a meeting to another time and place. Except as herein otherwise provided, and except as otherwise provided by the General Corporation Law, the vote of the majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the Board. The quorum and voting provisions herein stated shall not be construed as conflicting with any provisions of the General Corporation Law and these Bylaws which govern a meeting of directors held to fill vacancies and newly created directorships in the Board or action of disinterested directors.

Any member or members of the Board of Directors or of any committee designated by the Board, may participate in a meeting of the Board, or any such committee, as the case may be, by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other.

— CHAIRPERSON OF THE MEETING. The Chairperson of the Board, if any and if present and acting, shall preside at all meetings. Otherwise, the Vice-Chairperson of the Board, if any and if present and acting, or the President, if present and acting, or any other director chosen by the Board, shall preside.

5. REMOVAL OF DIRECTORS. Except as may otherwise be provided by the General Corporation Law, any director or the entire Board of Directors may be removed, with or without cause, by the holders of a majority of the shares then entitled to vote at an election of directors.

6. COMMITTEES. The Board of Directors may designate one or more committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the corporation. The Board may designate one or more directors as alternate members of any committee, who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee. In the absence or disqualification of any member of any such committee or committees, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not such member or members constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the Board of Directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Any such committee, to the extent provided in the resolution of the Board, shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation with the exception of any power or authority the delegation of which is prohibited by Section 141 of the General Corporation Law, and may authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which may require it.

7. WRITTEN ACTION. Any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all members of the Board or committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or electronic transmission, and the writing or writings or electronic transmission or transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board or committee. Such filing shall be in paper form if the minutes are maintained in paper form and shall be in electronic form if the minutes are maintained in electronic form.

ARTICLE III
OFFICERS

 

The officers of the corporation shall consist of a President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and, if deemed necessary, expedient, or desirable by the Board of Directors, a Chairperson of the Board, a Vice-Chairperson of the Board, an Executive Vice-President, one or more other Vice-Presidents, one or more Assistant Secretaries, one or more Assistant Treasurers, and such other officers with such titles as the resolution of the Board of Directors choosing them shall designate. Except as may otherwise be provided in the resolution of the Board of Directors choosing such officer, no officer other than the Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson of the Board, if any, need be a director. Any number of offices may be held by the same person, as the directors may determine.

Unless otherwise provided in the resolution choosing such officer, each officer shall be chosen for a term which shall continue until the meeting of the Board of Directors following the next annual meeting of stockholders and until such officer’s successor shall have been chosen and qualified.

All officers of the corporation shall have such authority and perform such duties in the management and operation of the corporation as shall be prescribed in the resolutions of the Board of Directors designating and choosing such officers and prescribing their authority and duties, and shall have such

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additional authority and duties as are incident to their office except to the extent that such resolutions may be inconsistent therewith. The Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the corporation shall record all of the proceedings of all meetings and actions in writing of stockholders, directors, and committees of directors, and shall exercise such additional authority and perform such additional duties as the Board shall assign to such Secretary or Assistant Secretary. Any officer may be removed, with or without cause, by the Board of Directors. Any vacancy in any office may be filled by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE IV
CORPORATE SEAL

 

The corporate seal shall be in such form as the Board of Directors shall prescribe.

ARTICLE V
FISCAL YEAR

 

The fiscal year of the corporation shall be fixed, and shall be subject to change, by the Board of Directors.

ARTICLE VI
CONTROL OVER BYLAWS

 

Subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation and the provisions of the General Corporation Law, the power to amend, alter, or repeal these Bylaws and to adopt new Bylaws may be exercised by the Board of Directors or by the stockholders.

ARTICLE VII
INDEMNIFICATION

 

1. RIGHT TO INDEMNIFICATION. The Corporation shall indemnify and hold harmless, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law as it presently exists or may hereafter be amended, any person who was or is made or is threatened to be made a party or is otherwise involved in any action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (a “ proceeding ”) by reason of the fact that he or she, or a person for whom he or she is the legal representative, is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation or of a partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity, including service with respect to employee benefit plans, against all liability and loss suffered and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) reasonably incurred by such person. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Corporation shall be required to indemnify a person in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) initiated by such person only if the proceeding (or part thereof) was authorized by the Board of Directors of the Corporation.

2. PREPAYMENT OF EXPENSES. The Corporation shall pay the expenses (including attorneys’ fees) incurred in defending any proceeding in advance of its final disposition; provided, however, that the payment of expenses incurred by a director or officer in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding shall be made only upon receipt of an undertaking by the director or officer to repay all amounts advanced if it should be ultimately determined that the director or officer is not entitled to be indemnified under this Article VII or otherwise.

3. CLAIMS. If a claim for indemnification or payment of expenses under this Article VII is not paid in full within sixty days after a written claim therefor has been received by the Corporation, the claimant may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the expense of prosecuting such claim. In any such action the Corporation shall have the burden of proving that the claimant was not entitled to the requested indemnification or payment of expenses under applicable law.

4. NONEXCLUSIVITY OF RIGHTS. The rights conferred on any person by this Article VII shall not be exclusive of any other rights which such person may have or hereafter acquire under any statute, provision of the Certificate of Incorporation, these Bylaws, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or otherwise.

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5. OTHER INDEMNIFICATION. The Corporation’s obligation, if any, to indemnify any person who was or is serving at its request as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit entity shall be reduced by any amount such person may collect as indemnification from such other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust, enterprise or nonprofit enterprise.

6. AMENDMENT OR REPEAL. Any repeal or modification of the foregoing provisions of this Article VII shall not adversely affect any right or protection hereunder of any person in respect of any act or omission occurring prior to the time of such repeal or modification.

ARTICLE VIII
FORUM SELECTION

 

Unless the Corporation consents in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware shall be the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on behalf of the Corporation, (ii) any action asserting a claim for breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation to the Corporation or the Corporation’s stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, the certificate of incorporation of the Corporation or these Bylaws (iv) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine, in each case subject to said Court of Chancery having personal jurisdiction over the indispensable parties named as defendants therein. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of capital stock of the Corporation shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of this Article VIII.

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Exhibit 99.1

 

Biographical information and business experience for each of Messrs. Durden, Fisher, Pallack, Stecker, Thekkethala and Del Priore is set forth below.

 

Incoming Directors

 

Michael Durden , age 54, has been the owner of and principal consultant at Barrington Advisory Group, LLC, since August, 2012. Mr. Durden has also served as an Operating Director of ClearPoint Investment Partners, a private equity firm, since 2013. From 2006 through 2012, Mr. Durden served as a Senior Vice President at Experian, a transactional data company. Mr. Durden has more than twenty years of multi-discipline experience in the data and analytics sectors. He serves on the board of directors of Archer, Inc. and several private companies.

 

Itzhak Fisher , age 61, has been the Chairman and Partner of Pereg Ventures, a venture capital firm, since 2005. From 2015 through 2016, Mr. Fisher was Chief Executive Officer of Harland Clarke, an integrated payment solutions, marketing services and retail company. From 2007 through 2014, Mr. Fisher served as the Executive Vice President of Nielsen, a global information, data, and measurement company. Mr. Fisher has more than 30 years of experience with a broad range of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and initial public offerings, as an entrepreneur, investment manager and acquirer. Mr. Fisher has served as an advisor or on the board of directors of a number of public and private companies.

 

Matthew Stecker , age 48, has served as a senior advisor in the United States Department of Commerce since September of 2015. From October 2014 through August 2015, Mr. Stecker Chief Executive Officer of Kaneland, LLC, an e-commerce startup, which he founded. From May 2013 through October 2014, Mr. Stecker served as Vice President, Mobile Content – North America for RealNetworks, Inc., a telecommunications and media firm. From August 2009 through May 2013, Mr. Stecker served as Chief Executive Officer of Livewire Mobile, Inc., a telecommunications and e-commerce company.

 

Thomas Thekkethala , age 55, has been the director and Chief Executive Officer of Evolving Systems Inc., a software solutions company, since October 2015. From February 2004 through September 2015, Mr. Thekkethala was the director and Chief Executive Officer of Sixth Sense Media, a software company. In addition, from December 1999 through September 2015, Mr. Thekkethala was the Managing Partner of JT Ventures LLC, a venture capital fund that focused on investments in software companies.

 

Thomas J. Pallack , age 62, has been the Chief Executive Officer and Head of Sales of SBV Solutions –Strategic Business Velocity, a software sales company that he co-founded, since 2005. Mr. Pallack’s background encompasses more than 30 years of sales, sales operations, financial and business development experience with a number of global technology software companies, including Oracle, Ariba and Consilium.

 

Appointed Executive Officers

 

Biographical information for Mr. Pallack, the Company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer, is provided above.

 

Mark Del Priore , age 39, served as Chief Financial Officer of Go Green Global Technologies Corp, a water and fuel technology licensing, marketing, manufacturing and development company, since November 2014, where he has also served as a director since May 2013. From 1999 to 2013, Mr. Del Priore served as a Principal at W.R. Huff Asset Management Co., L.L.C., where he evaluated and oversaw a number of W.R. Huff’s public and private investments, including a substantial portfolio of technology, telecommunications and media companies. Mr. Del Priore’s extensive financial experience qualifies him to act as Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company.

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.2

 

SITO MOBILE, LTD.

The Newport Corporate Center
100 TownSquare Place, Suite 204
Jersey City, NJ 07371

 

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, pursuant to Section 228(e) of the Delaware General Corporation Law (the “ DGCL ”), that the holders of more than a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock of SITO Mobile, Ltd., a Delaware corporation, have taken the following actions by written consent and without a meeting:

 

1. The purported amendment and restatement on March 23, 2017 by the Company’s Board of Directors (the “ Board ”) of the Bylaws of the Company (as so amended or restated, the “ March Amended Bylaws ”) was repealed and such March Amended Bylaws were replaced with the Bylaws attached as Exhibit 3.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K, dated June 5, 2017 (the “ New Bylaws ”);

 

2. The size of the Board was set at six (6) directors;

 

3. Each of Betsy Bernard, Richard O’Connell, Jonathan E. Sandelman, Lowell W. Robinson and Joseph Beatty was removed from the Board; and

 

4. Each of Michael Durden, Itzhak Fisher, Thomas J. Pallack, Matthew Stecker and Thomas Thekkethala was elected to serve as a director of the Company.

 

The foregoing actions became effective on June 1, 2017.

 

  By order of the Board of Directors.  
     
  /s/: Thomas J. Pallack  
     
  Interim Chief Executive Officer  

Jersey City, New Jersey

June 5, 2017

 

 

 

Exhibit 99.3

 

SITO Mobile Announces Changes to Board and Management Team

 

Shareholders Resoundingly Support the Proposals Made in the Consent Solicitation Statement

 

Brent Rosenthal Remains on Board and will be joined by Five New Independent Directors

 

Thomas J. Pallack Appointed as Interim Chief Executive Officer

 

JERSEY CITY, N.J., June 5, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SITO Mobile, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SITO), a leading mobile engagement platform (“SITO” or the “Company”), today announced that the independent inspector of elections, which was appointed by the Company in connection with the previously-announced consent solicitation by Stephen D. Baksa, Thomas M. Candelaria and other participants, has certified written consents representing more than 57% of the Company’s outstanding shares to remove five of the six members of the Company’s Board of Directors, elect five new directors to the Company’s Board of Directors and amend and restate the Company’s Bylaws. Accordingly, effective immediately, Betsy Bernard, Richard O’Connell, Jonathan E. Sandelman, Lowell W. Robinson and Joseph Beatty have been removed from the Company’s Board. Brent Rosenthal, who will remain on the Board, will be joined on the Board by new directors Michael Durden, Itzhak Fisher, Thomas J. Pallack, Matthew Stecker and Thomas Thekkethala. The new directors will serve on the Board until the next annual meeting of shareholders, which, given their recent appointment, has been postponed until 2018.

 

In addition, Mr. Richard O’Connell and Mr. Lawrence Firestone, the Company’s Interim Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer, respectively, will no longer serve as officers of the Company. They will be replaced immediately by Thomas J. Pallack, who will serve as Interim Chief Executive Officer, and Mark Del Priore, who will serve as Interim Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Pallack is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Sales of SBV Solutions —Strategic Business Velocity, a software sales company. He brings to our Company more than 30 years of sales, operational, financial and business development experience with global technology software companies such as Oracle, Ariba, Consilium and NCA. The Board intends to evaluate candidates, including the interim executives, to fill the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer roles on a permanent basis.

 

Speaking on behalf of SITO’s newly elected Board, Brent Rosenthal added, “I am looking forward to working with SITO’s new Board members. My fellow Board members and I share a common goal for SITO Mobile – to enhance value for all of the Company’s stakeholders, including its shareholders, employees and customers, by focusing on excellence throughout the organization. We also welcome Messrs. Pallack and Del Priore to SITO Mobile. We anticipate that their extensive experience in the mobile and marketing industries and deep connections to the industry will result in substantial revenue growth, improved product offerings and increased shareholder value. The new Board is prepared and excited to immediately begin working alongside SITO’s management team to put the Company on track for long-term value creation for all shareholders. The new Board wishes the departing directors and Messrs. O’Connell and Firestone well, and we thank them and their advisors for ensuring a smooth and seamless transition process that will allow us to immediately focus on the priorities at hand.”

 

Speaking on the Company’s potential, Thomas J. Pallack, the interim Chief Executive Officer said, “I am excited by the technology platform that SITO has developed. By focusing on larger customers and developing our data product offerings, I believe there is an opportunity to quickly grow SITO Mobile to be one of the premier companies in the Mobile Marketing space. We will be announcing several additions to the team in the coming weeks. Together, we plan to substantially grow shareholder value and realize this Company’s full potential.”

 

“I look forward to working with Tom and the board to improve SITO’s shareholder relations after this contentious period,” said SITO’s Interim Chief Financial Officer, Mark Del Priore. “I intend to establish the controls and financial rigor needed throughout the organization to protect shareholder interests and increase the value of their investment in our Company.”

 

 

 

 

Biographical information for the new members of the Company’s Board of Directors will be provided in a Current Report on Form 8-K, to be filed by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

 

About SITO Mobile Ltd.

SITO Mobile provides a mobile engagement platform that enables brands to increase awareness, loyalty, and ultimately sales. For more information, visit www.sitomobile.com .

 

Cautionary Statement Regarding Certain Forward-Looking Information  This press release contains forward-looking statements. These statements are based on our management’s beliefs and assumptions and on information currently available to our management. Forward-looking statements include statements concerning the following: SITO’s plans and initiatives, campaign volume and average campaign dollars, our guidance and/or expectations for future quarters, our possible or assumed future results of operations; our business strategies; our ability to attract and retain customers; our ability to sell additional products and services to customers; our competitive position; our industry environment; our potential growth opportunities; and risks, disruption, costs and uncertainty caused by or related to the actions of activist shareholders, including that if individuals are elected to our Board with a specific agenda or if control of our Board was to abruptly change, it may adversely affect our ability to effectively implement our business strategy and create value for our shareholders and perceived uncertainties as to our future direction as a result of potential changes to the composition of our Board may lead to the perception of a change in the direction of our business, instability or a lack of continuity which may be exploited by our competitors, cause concern to our current or potential customers, and may result in the loss of potential business opportunities and make it more difficult to attract and retain qualified personnel and business partners. You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements, because they involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which are, in some cases, beyond our control and which could materially affect results. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things, those listed under “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and the reports we file with the SEC. Actual events or results may vary significantly from those implied or projected by the forward-looking statements due to these risk factors. No forward-looking statement is a guarantee of future performance. You should read our Annual Report on Form 10-K and the documents that we reference in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and have filed as exhibits thereto with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, with the understanding that our actual future results and circumstances may be materially different from what we expect. Forward-looking statements are made based on management’s beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date the statements are made and we undertake no obligation to update forward-looking statements if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change, except as may be required by applicable law. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements.

 

Contacts:

 

Investor Relations:

Joseph Wilkinson

SVP Investor Relations

joseph.wilkinson@sitomobile.com

 

Media Relations:

Alexandra Levy

Silicon Alley Media

alex@siliconalley-media.com