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Exhibit 10.3

AMENDMENT TO EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

                    This Amendment (“Amendment”) to Employment Agreement by and
among David L. Rogers (“Executive”),  Sovran Self Storage Inc. (the
“Corporation”) and Sovran Acquisition Limited Partnership (“SALP”) as amended
and restated effective January 1, 2009 (“Agreement”).  The Corporation and SALP,
are collectively referred to herein as the “Company”.

                    WHEREAS, the Executive is a valuable employee of the
Company, an integral part of its management team and a key participant in the
decision-making process for material corporate actions and in short-term and
long-term strategic planning for the Company; and

                    WHEREAS, the Corporation’s Board of Directors desires to
implement an orderly and efficient succession plan for senior management of the
Company and in connection therewith the Company and Robert J. Attea and Kenneth
F. Myszka are each entering an amendments to their respective employments
agreements on the date hereof; and

                    WHEREAS, among other matters, the amendments to the
employment agreements with Robert J. Attea and Kenneth F. Myszka provide that
the section regarding  gross-up payments in the connection with certain
severance payments is deleted in its entirety; and

                    WHEREAS, in connection with the foregoing and to assist in
facilitating the succession plan, the Executive and the Company have agreed to
enter into this Amendment.

                    NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual promises
herein contained, the parties agree that Section 5(e) (“Gross-up Payments”) of
the Agreement is deleted in its entirety.

 

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Dated:  January 19, 2015
 
 
 
 
SOVRAN SELF STORAGE, INC.
 
By:     /s/Kenneth F. Myszka                        
            Kenneth F. Myszka, President
 
 
 
SOVRAN ACQUISITION LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
 
          By:  Sovran Holdings, Inc., its General Partner
 
          By:     /s/Kenneth F. Myszka                           
                        Kenneth F. Myszka, President
 
 
 
 
/s/ David L. Rogers                             
David L. Rogers
 
 

 
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