As of the date of this prospectus, the Company and its subsidiaries have 216 employees employed in 14 offices in Canada, the United States, Greater China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Australia. As of the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company and its subsidiaries had 216 employees employed in 14 offices in Canada, the United States, Greater China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Australia. As of the year ended December 31, 2020, the Company and its subsidiaries had 227 employees employed in 14 offices in Canada, the United States, Greater China, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. As of the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company and its subsidiaries had over 216 employees employed in twelve offices in Canada, the United States, Greater China, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. The fluctuation in the Company’s number of employees is not significant, and none of the Company’s employees belong to any labour unions. Furthermore, all of the Company’s employees are employed on a full-time basis.
Incentive stock options may be granted only to employees of the Company or a “parent corporation” or “subsidiary corporation” thereof (as such terms are defined in Sections 424(e) and 424(f) of the Code). Stock awards other than incentive stock options (including
non-statutory
stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards, restricted stock unit awards, and other stock awards, collectively “
”) may be granted to employees, directors and consultants;
, that Stock Awards may not be granted to employees, directors and consultants who are providing Continuous Service only to any “parent” of the Company, as such term is defined in Rule 405, subject to certain exceptions set out in the Company’s Incentive Stock Option Plan.
The Company operates in multiple geographies around the world, including North America (the United States and Canada), Europe (the United Kingdom and continental Europe), Southeast Asia (primarily Greater China), the Middle East (primarily Saudi Arabia), and Australia with most of its business taking place outside of Canada. mCloud is not dependent on business in any one region for its success.
The Company’s customers use its software to monitor their assets and rely on the Company to provide updates and releases as part of its software maintenance and support services. Consequently, while the Company has not implemented a formal research and development policy for the past three years, the Company is and has been (including, but not limited to, the past three years) engaged with a number of research and development initiatives as a part of its ongoing effort to continually update its software and develop new products.
On September 27, 2021, the Company executed a
12-year
lease for its office in Calgary, Alberta located at 8 Avenue SW, Stephen Avenue Place, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. In total, the Company has leased 33,000 square feet of the property, situated on the 3
rd
and 33
rd
floor of the building located at the aforementioned address. The lease term commences on December 1, 2022, preceded by a fixturing period which the Company will use to build out the office space to their specifications. The Company is currently in the design and scoping stage, and has not yet finalized its plans for the precise use of the property, and does not yet have any plans to construct, expand, or improve the facilities. No environmental issues have currently been identified that will affect the Company’s utilization of the asset.
Certain government regulations have a material impact on the Company’s business. The Company has implemented certain measures to address and conform to all the frameworks noted below, and others as required, and conducts an annual review to ensure compliance with such frameworks and regulations.
The Company is required to adhere to such frameworks as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulations, the EU’s ePrivacy Regulation, Brazil’s General Data Protection Law, the California Consumer Privacy Act, the California Online Privacy Protection Act, and various other regulations in effect in other U.S. states, which require the Company, among other things, to have a valid privacy policy, block cookies before the user provides consent, allow users to
opt-in
or
opt-out
of receiving communications from the Company, show a notice of collection, and keep records of consent and processing. While the Company does not yet do business in Brazil, and has not reached the required number of users in California for the applicable regulations noted above to have effect, the Company has implemented measures to ensure that it remains compliant with these frameworks in advance of such compliance being legally required.
Data security practices are monitored and regulated by the Federal Trade Commission in the U.S., the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in Canada, and the European Data Protection Board of the EU. Canada, in particular, has several privacy law statutes that the Company is required to adhere to, such as the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the Personal Information Protection Act (Alberta), the Personal Information Protection Act (British Columbia), and An Act Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector (Quebec).