Exhibit 99.3
April 28, 2017
VIA EMAIL
Mr. Richard O’Connell
SITO Mobile, Ltd.
100 Town Square Place, Suite 204
Jersey City, NJ 07310
Attention: Secretary of the Corporation
Re: Nominating Notice Submitted April 7, 2017
Reference is made to your letter, dated April 20, 2017 on behalf of SITO Mobile, Ltd., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), and the Governance and Nominating Committee (the “Governance and Nominating Committee”) of the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”), with respect to the notice of nomination (the “Nomination Notice”) that we submitted to the Company on April 7, 2017, in which we nominated the following five candidates for election to the Board at the Company’s 2017 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the “2017 Annual Meeting”): Michael Durden, Itzhak Fisher, Thomas J. Pallack, Matthew Stecker and Thomas Thekkethala (the “Nominees”).
In an effort to facilitate the ongoing review of the Nomination Notice by you and your advisors, we hereby confirm and verify that the information in the Nomination Notice was and is completely accurate and true, and does not contain any false and misleading statements or other statements that may violate the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or other applicable law. We further believe that our Nomination Notice complies with the Company’s Amended and Restated Bylaws (the “Bylaws”), as amended on March 23, 2017, and respectfully request that you immediately acknowledge the validity of our Nomination Notice.
Section 2(a)(2) of the Bylaws provides as follows: “Upon written request by the Secretary of the Corporation, any stockholder submitting a notice pursuant to this Section 2(a)(2) or Section 2(b)(9) shall provide, within five (5) business days of delivery of such request (or such other period as may be specified in such request), written verification, satisfactory in the reasonable discretion of the Corporation, to demonstrate the complete accuracy and truthfulness of any information, and the absence of any false and misleading statements or other statements that may violate the Exchange Act or other applicable law, in any notice submitted by the stockholder pursuant to this Section 2(a)(2) or Section 2(b)(9) (including, if requested by the Corporation, written confirmation by such stockholder that it continues to intend to bring before the meeting the proposed nominations and/or other business proposed in its stockholder notice). If a stockholder fails to provide such written verification within such period, the information as to which written verification was requested may be deemed not to have been provided in accordance with this Section 2(a)(2) or Section 2(b)(9).”
The request made by the Company’s April 20, 2017 letter reflects a poorly-camouflaged attempt by the current Board to impose yet another impediment to the fundamental and intrinsic right of shareholders to nominate candidates of their choosing to serve on the Board, and far exceeds the Company’s authority under Section 2(a)(2) of the Bylaws. Moreover, such request clearly represents an unreasonable abuse of discretion by the current Board and is inimical to both fundamental principles of corporate democracy and the will of the Company’s shareholders. After consultation with our counsel and other advisors, we have concluded that the response provided above in the second paragraph of this letter fully satisfies the requirements of Section 2(a)(2) of the Bylaws.
While we respect the role that the Governance and Nominating Committee would perform in a well-functioning corporate governance model, we are and remain gravely concerned that the current directors are prolonging the review of the Nomination Notice unnecessarily to entrench themselves and frustrate and disenfranchise the shareholders of the Company. Sadly, the current Board’s chronic, narcissistic disregard for shareholder egalitarianism is consistent with several of the Board’s recent actions, including the approval of the amendment and restatement of the Bylaws on March 23, 2017, which created numerous impediments to the exercise by the Company’s shareholders of certain integral rights, and the adoption of a poison pill on April 4, 2017.
Accordingly, we urge the Governance and Nominating Committee to permit the shareholders of the Company to decide for themselves whom shall serve as stewards of the Company and whom are the most qualified individuals to best represent their interests, rather than prevent the Company’s shareholders from having the ability to choose persons other than those selected by the current Board to serve as directors of the Company, by immediately approving and declaring the validity of our Nomination Notice.
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| Sincerely, | ||
| /s/ Stephen D. Baksa | ||
| Stephen D. Baksa | ||
| /s/ Thomas Candelaria | ||
| Thomas Candelaria |
| cc: | Betsy J. Bernard, Lead Independent Director | |
| Marcelle Balcombe, Esq., Sichenzia Ross Ference Kesner LLP | ||
| Keith E. Gottfried, Esp. Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP |
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Important Additional Information And Where To Find It
Messrs. Stephen D. Baksa, Thomas Candelaria and Michael Durden, ltzhak Fisher, Thomas J. Pallack, Matthew Stecker and Thomas Thekkethala (together, the “Nominees”) are deemed to be participants in a solicitation of consents from the stockholders (the “Consent Solicitation”) of SITO Mobile Ltd (the “Company”). Information regarding Mr. Baksa, Mr. Candelaria, the Nominees, and their respective interests in the Company by security holdings or otherwise can be found in the Consent Solicitation filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on April 12, 2017, as amended.
Mr. Baksa, Mr. Candelaria and the Nominees intend to file a definitive consent solicitation statement (the “Consent Solicitation Statement”) and accompanyingGOLD consent card with the SEC in connection with the Consent Solicitation. Additional information regarding the identity of participants, and their direct or indirect interests, by security holdings or otherwise, will be set forth in the Consent Solicitation Statement, including the schedules and appendices thereto. INVESTORS AND STOCKHOLDERS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO READ ANY SUCH CONSENT SOLICITATION STATEMENT AND THE ACCOMPANYINGGOLD CONSENT CARD AND OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED BYMr. Baksa, Mr. Candelaria and the Nominees WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE AS THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Stockholders will be able to obtain the Consent Solicitation Statement, any amendments or supplements to the Consent Solicitation Statement, the accompanyingGOLDconsent card, and other documents filed by Mr. Baksa, Mr. Candelaria and the Nominees with the SEC for no charge at the SEC’s website atwww.sec.gov. Copies will also be available at no charge at the following website:icommaterials.com/SITO, by writing to InvestorCom, 65 Locust Avenue, Suite 302, New Canaan, CT 06840, or by calling Investorcom at (877) 972-0090.
