Executive’s powers under this Employment Agreement. Executive shall not serve on any other boardsof directors and shall not provide services (whether as an employee or independent contractor) toany for-profit organization on or after the date the Executive signs this Employment Agreementabsent the written consent of the Chairman of the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board ofDirectors.§ 3. COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS     3.1. Base Salary. Executive’s initial base salary shall be $250,000.00 per year, whichbase salary shall be payable in accordance with the Company’s standard payroll practices andpolicies for senior executives and shall be subject to such withholdings as required by law or asotherwise permissible under such practices or policies. Executive’s base salary shall be subject toannual review and periodic increases (but not decreases), if any, as determined by the CompensationCommittee of the Company’s Board of Directors or, at the discretion of such Board of Directors, theBoard of Directors as a whole.     3.2. Annual Bonus. Executive during the Term shall be eligible to receive an annualbonus each year, and such bonus, if any, shall be set by the Compensation Committee of theCompany’s Board of Directors or, at the discretion of such Board of Directors, the Board ofDirectors as a whole. Each such bonus shall be reasonable in light of the contribution made byExecutive for such year in relation to the contributions made and bonuses paid other senior Companyexecutives for such year.     3.3. Stock Options and Restricted Stock. Executive shall be eligible for grants ofoptions to purchase stock of the Company and restricted stock grants when and as recommended by theCompensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors or, at the discretion of such Board ofDirectors, the Board of Directors as a whole. The number of shares subject to each such stockoption grant or restricted stock grant shall be reasonable in light of the contribution made, orexpected to be made, by Executive for the period for which such grant is made in relation to thenumber of shares subject to stock option grants and restricted stock grants made to other seniorCompany executives based on the contributions made, or expected to be made, by such other seniorCompany executives for such period.     3.4. Employee Benefit Plans, Programs and Policies. Executive shall be eligible toparticipate in the employee benefit plans, programs and policies maintained by the Company forsimilarly situated senior executives in accordance with the terms and conditions of such plans,programs and policies as in effect from time to time.     3.5. Vacation and Other Similar Benefits. Executive shall be entitled to vacation timeto be credited and taken in accordance with the Company’s policy from time to time in effect forsenior executives. Such vacation time shall not be carried over year to year, and shall not be paidout upon termination of employment, or upon expiration of this Employment Agreement.     3.6. Business Expenses. Executive shall have a right to be reimbursed for Executive’sreasonable and appropriate business expenses which Executive actually incurs in connection with theperformance of Executive’s duties and responsibilities under this Employment Agreement inaccordance with the Company’s expense reimbursement policies and procedures for its seniorexecutives.
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§ 4. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT     4.1. General. The Company shall have the right to terminate Executive’s employment atany time, and Executive shall have the right to resign at any time. However, any non-renewal by theCompany of this Employment Agreement pursuant to § 1.1 shall constitute a termination ofExecutive’s employment under § 4 of this Employment Agreement. Any non-renewal by the Executive ofthis Employment Agreement pursuant to § 1.1 shall not constitute a resignation by Executive under §4 of this Employment Agreement.     4.2. Termination By The Company Other Than For Death, Cause Or Disability Or By ExecutiveFor Good Reason.     (a) Before a Change in Control. If the Company terminates Executive’semployment other than for Death, Cause (as defined in § 4.2(c)) or a Disability (as definedin § 4.2(d)) before the Effective Date (as defined in § 4.2(e)(l)) of a Change in Control(as defined in § 4.2(e)(2)) or Executive resigns for Good Reason (as defined in § 4.2(f))before such Effective Date, the Company (in lieu of any severance pay under any severancepay plans, programs or policies) shall (subject to applicable withholdings):     (1) pay to Executive a lump sum amount equal to the product of (x) multipliedby (y), where (x) equals the sum of (A) and (B), with (A) equal to the Executive’sannual base salary as in effect on the date the Executive’s employment terminatesand (B) equal to the amount of the Executive’s most recently paid annual bonus, and(y) equals one (1);     (2) with respect to options to purchase Company stock which are granted toExecutive before or after the date the Company signs this Employment Agreement,accelerate Executive’s right to exercise 100% of such still- outstanding options sothat Executive has the right to exercise 100% of such still- outstanding options onthe date Executive’s employment terminates, subject to the terms of the plan underwhich the options were granted;     (3) pay to the Executive a lump sum amount equal to the product of (x)multiplied by (y), where (x) equals two times the Company’s monthly contribution onbehalf of Executive under the plans, programs and policies described in § 3.4 whichprovide healthcare, life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverageto Executive immediately before Executive’s employment terminates, and (y) equalseighteen (18); and     (4) make one or, if necessary, more than one Gross Up Payment (as described inand paid in accordance with §4.2(g)) to Executive, if applicable.     (b) After a Change of Control. If Executive resigns for Good Reason within onehundred eighty days (180) prior to, or eighteen (18) months following, the Effective Date ofa Change in Control or the Company terminates Executive’s employment (other than for Causeor a Disability) within one hundred eighty (180) days prior to, or eighteen (18) monthsfollowing, the Effective Date of a Change of Control, the Company (in lieu of any severancepay under any severance pay plans, programs or policies) shall (subject to applicablewithholdings):     (1) pay to Executive a lump sum amount equal to the product of (x)multiplied by (y), where (x) equals the sum of (A) and (B), with (A) equal to the
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Executive’s annual base salary as in effect on the date the Executive’semployment terminates and (B) equal to the amount of the Executive’s most recentlypaid annual bonus, and (y) equals two (2);     (2) (a) with respect to options to purchase Company stock which are granted toExecutive before or after the date the Company signs this Employment Agreement, accelerateExecutive’s right to exercise 100% of such still-outstanding options so that Executive hasthe right to exercise 100% of such still-outstanding options on the date Executive’semployment terminates, subject to the terms of the plan under which the options weregranted; and          (b) treat Executive as if Executive had remained employed by the Company until the endof the three (3) year period which starts on the date Executive’s employment terminates forthe sole purpose that the time period over which Executive has the right to exercise suchoptions shall be the same as if there had been no termination of Executive’s employmentuntil the end of such three (3) year period;     (3) with respect to shares of restricted stock which are granted to executive afterthe date the Company signs this Employment Agreement and are still outstanding, deem anyconditions applicable to such grant to have been satisfied in full;     (4) pay to the Executive a lump sum amount equal to the product of (x) multiplied by(y), where (x) equals two times the Company’s monthly contribution on behalf of Executiveunder the plans, programs and policies described in §3.4 which provide healthcare, lifeinsurance and accidental death and dismemberment coverage to Executive immediately beforeExecutive’s employment terminates, and (y) equals eighteen (18); and     (5) make one or, if necessary, more than one, Gross Up Payment (as described in andpaid in accordance with § 4.2(g)) to Executive, if applicable.     (c) Cause. The term “Cause” as used in this Employment Agreement shall (subjectto § 4.2(c)(4)) mean:     (1) Executive is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or confesses or otherwiseadmits to any felony or any act of fraud, misappropriation or embezzlement;     (2) There is any act or omission by Executive involving malfeasance or grossnegligence in the performance of Executive’s duties and responsibilities under § 2 or theexercise of Executive’s powers under § 2 to the material detriment of the Company; or     (3) (A) Executive breaches any of the provisions of § 5 or (B) Executive violates anyprovision of any code of conduct adopted by the Company which applies to Executive and anyother Company employees if the consequence of such violation for any employee subject tosuch code of conduct ordinarily would be a termination of his or her employment by theCompany; provided, however.
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     (4) No such act or omission or event shall be treated as “Cause” under §4.2(c)(2) and § 4.2(c)(3) and this Employment Agreement unless (A) Executive has beenprovided a detailed, written statement of the basis for the Company’s belief that such actor omission or event constitutes “Cause” and an opportunity to meet with the Company’sBoard of Directors (together with Executive’s counsel if Executive chooses to haveExecutive’s counsel present at such meeting) after Executive has had a reasonable period inwhich to review such statement and, if the act or omission or event is one which can becured by Executive, Executive has had at least a thirty (30) day period to take correctiveaction and (B) the Company’s Board of Directors after such meeting (if Executive exercisesExecutive’s right to have a meeting) and after the end of such thirty (30) day correctionperiod (if applicable) determines reasonably and in good faith and by the affirmative voteof at least a majority or, after the Effective Date of a Change in Control, at leastthree-fourths of the members of such Board of Directors then in office at a meeting calledand held for such purpose that “Cause” does exist under this Employment Agreement;provided, however, if Executive is a member of such Board of Directors, Executive shallhave no right to participate in such vote, and the number of members needed to constitute amajority of, or three-fourths of, whichever is applicable, the members of such Board ofDirectors shall be determined without counting Executive as a member of such Board ofDirectors; furtherprovided,     (d) Disability. The term “Disability” as used in this Employment Agreement means anyphysical or mental condition which renders Executive unable even with reasonable accommodation bythe Company to perform the essential functions of Executive’s job for at least a consecutive onehundred and eighty (180) day period and which makes Executive eligible to receive benefits underthe Company’s long-term disability plan as of the date that Executive’s employment terminates.     (e) Effective Date and Change in Control.     (1) The term “Effective Date” as used in this Employment Agreement means either thedate which includes the “closing” (as such term is commonly understood in the UnitedStates) of the transaction which makes a Change in Control effective if the Change inControl is made effective through a transaction which has such a “closing” or the earliestdate a Change in Control is reported in accordance with any applicable law, regulation,rule or common practice as effective to any government or any agency of any government orto any exchange or market in which the Company effects any trades if the Change in Controlis made effective other than through a transaction which has such a “closing.”     (2) The term “Change in Control” as used in this Employment Agreement means theoccurrence of any of the following events:     (A) any “person” (as that term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) ofthe Securities Exchange Act of 1934), is or becomes the beneficial owner (asdefined in Rule 13d-3 under the 1934 Act), directly or indirectly, of securitiesrepresenting 30% or more of the combined voting power of the then outstandingsecurities of the Company eligible to
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vote for the election of the members of the Company’s Board of Directors unless (1) such person isthe Company or any subsidiary of the Company, (2) such person is an employee benefit plan (or atrust which is a part of such a plan) which provides benefits exclusively to, or on behalf of,employees or former employees of the Company or a subsidiary of the Company, (3) such person is anunderwriter temporarily holding such securities pursuant to an offering of such securities, (4)such person is Executive, an entity controlled by Executive or a group which includes Executive or(5) such person acquired such securities in a Non-Qualifying Transaction (as defined in §4.2(e)(2)(D));     (B) during any period of two consecutive years or less beginning after the closing date of theinitial public offering of the common stock of the Company, individuals who at the beginning ofsuch period constitute the Board of Directors of the Company cease, for any reason, to constituteat least a majority of such Board of Directors, unless the election or nomination for election ofeach new director was approved by at least two-thirds of the directors then still in office whowere directors at the beginning of the period (either by a specific vote of such directors or bythe approval of the Company proxy statement in which each such individual is named as a nominee fora director without written objection to such nomination by such directors); provided,however, that no individual initially elected or nominated as a director of the Company asa result of an actual or threatened election contest with respect to directors or as a result ofany other actual or threatened solicitation of proxies or consents by or on behalf of any personother than the Board of Directors of the Company shall be deemed to be approved;     (C) the shareholders of the Company approve any reorganization, merger, consolidation or shareexchange as a result of which the common stock of the Company shall be changed, converted orexchanged into or for securities of another corporation (other than a merger with a wholly ownedsubsidiary of the Company) or any dissolution or liquidation of the Company or any sale or thedisposition of 50% or more of the assets or business of the Company, or     (D) the shareholders of the Company approve any reorganization, merger, consolidation or shareexchange or similar form of corporate transaction involving the Company unless (1) the persons whowere the beneficial owners of the outstanding securities eligible to vote for the election of themembers of the Company’s Board of Directors immediately before the consummation of such transactionhold more than 60% of the voting power of the securities eligible to vote for the members of theboard of directors of the successor or survivor corporation in such transaction immediatelyfollowing the consummation of such transaction and (2) the number of the securities of suchsuccessor or survivor corporation representing the voting power described in § 4.2(e)(2)(D)(l) heldby the persons described in § 4.2(e)(2)(D)(l) immediately following
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the consummation of such transaction is beneficially owned by each such person insubstantially the same proportion that each such person had beneficially owned theoutstanding securities eligible to vote for the election of the members of theCompany’s Board of Directors immediately before the consummation of suchtransaction, provided (3) the percentage described in §4.2(e)(2)(D)(1) of thesecurities of the successor or survivor corporation and the number described in §4.2(e)(2)(D)(2) of the securities of the successor or survivor corporation shall bedetermined exclusively by reference to the securities of the successor or survivorcorporation which result from the beneficial ownership of shares of common stock ofthe Company by the persons described in § 4.2(e)(2)(D)(1) immediately before theconsummation of such transaction (any transaction which satisfies all of thecriteria specified in (1), (2) and (3) above shall be deemed to be a“Non-Qualifying Transaction”);Notwithstanding the foregoing, the initial public offering of the common stock of theCompany shall in no event constitute a Change in Control under this Employment Agreement.     (f) Good Reason. The term “Good Reason” as used in this EmploymentAgreement shall (subject to § 4.2(f)(6)) mean:     (1) there is a material reduction or, after the Effective Date of a Change in Control,any reduction in Executive’s base salary under § 3.1 or there is a material reduction inExecutive’s opportunity to receive any annual bonus and stock option grants withoutExecutive’s express written consent;     (2) there is a material reduction in the scope, importance or prestige of Executive’sduties, responsibilities or powers at the Company or Executive’s reporting relationshipswith respect to who reports to Executive and whom Executive reports to at the Companywithout Executive’s express written consent;     (3) the Company transfers Executive’s primary work site from Executive’s primary worksite on the date the Company signs this Employment Agreement or, if Executive subsequentlyconsents in writing to such a transfer under this Employment Agreement, from the primarywork site which was the subject of such consent, to a new primary work site which is morethan 30 miles (measured along a straight line) from Executive’s then current primary worksite unless such new primary work site is closer (measured along a straight line) toExecutive’s primary residence than Executive’s then current primary work site;     (4) the Company after the Effective Date of a Change in Control changes Executive’sjob title or fails to continue to make available to Executive the same or substantiallyequivalent plans, programs and policies pursuant to § 3.4 as made available before suchEffective Date absent Executive’s express written consent;
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     (5) there is a material breach or, after the Effective Date of a Change in Control,any breach of this Employment Agreement by the Company; provided, however,     (6) No such act or omission shall be treated as “Good Reason” under this Agreementunless:     (A) (1) Executive delivers to the Compensation Committee of the Company’sBoard of Directors a detailed, written statement of the basis for Executive’sbelief that such act or omission constitutes Good Reason, (2) Executive deliverssuch statement before the later of (a) the end of the ninety (90) day period whichstarts on the date there is an act or omission which forms the basis forExecutive’s belief that Good Reason exists or (b) the end of the period mutuallyagreed upon for purposes of this§ 4.2(f)(6)(a)(2)(B) in writing by Executive and the Chairman of the Company’sBoard of Directors, (3) Executive gives such Board of Directors a thirty (30) dayperiod after the delivery of such statement to cure the basis for such belief and(4) Executive actually submits Executive’s written resignation to the Chairman ofthe Company’s Board of Directors during the sixty (60) day period which beginsimmediately after the end of such thirty (30) day period if Executive reasonablyand in good faith determines that Good Reason continues to exist after the end ofsuch thirty (30) day period; or     (B) the Company states in writing to Executive that Executive has the right totreat any such act or omission as Good Reason under this Employment Agreement andExecutive resigns during the sixty (60) day period which starts on the date suchstatement is actually delivered to Executive; and     (7) If Executive consents in writing to any reduction described in§ 4.2(f)(1) or § 4.2(f)(2), to any transfer described in § 4.2(f)(3) or to any change orfailure described in § 4.2(f)(4) in lieu of exercising Executive’s right to resign for GoodReason and delivers such consent to the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors, thedate such consent is so delivered thereafter shall be treated under this definition as theEffective Date of a Change in Control for purposes of determining whether Executivesubsequently has Good Reason under this Employment Agreement to resign as a result of anysuch subsequent reduction, transfer or change or failure.     (g) Gross Up Payment. The term “Gross Up Payment” as used in this EmploymentAgreement shall mean a payment to or on behalf of Executive which shall be sufficient to pay (1)100% of any excise tax described in this §4.2(g), (2) 100% of any federal, state and local incometax and social security and other employment tax on the payment made to pay such excise tax as wellas any additional taxes on such payment and (3) 100% of any interest or penalties assessed by theInternal Revenue Service on Executive which are related to the timely payment of such excise tax(unless such interest or penalties are attributable to Executive’s willful misconduct or grossnegligence with respect to such timely payment). A Gross Up Payment shall be made by the Company
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promptly after either the Company or the Company’s independent accountants determine thatany payments and benefits called for under this Employment Agreement together with any otherpayments and benefits made available to Executive by the Company and any other person willresult in Executive’s being subject to an excise tax under § 4999 of the Internal RevenueCode of 1986, as amended (which shall be referred to in this § 4.2(g) as the “Code”) or suchan excise tax is assessed against Executive as a result of any such payments and otherbenefits if Executive takes such action (other than waiving Executive’s right to anypayments or benefits in excess of the payments or benefits which Executive has expresslyagreed to waive under this § 4.2(g)) as the Company reasonably requests under thecircumstances to mitigate or challenge such excise tax; provided, however,if the Company or the Company’s independent accountants make the determination described inthis § 4.2(g) and, further, determine that Executive will not be subject to any such excisetax if Executive waives Executive’s right to receive a part of such payments or benefits andsuch part does not exceed $25,000, Executive shall irrevocably waive Executive’s right toreceive such part if an independent accountant or lawyer retained by Executive and paid bythe Company agrees with the determination made by the Company or the Company’s independentaccountants with respect to the effect of such reduction in payments or benefits. Anydeterminations under this §4.2(g) shall be made in accordance with § 280G of the Code andany applicable related regulations (whether proposed, temporary or final) and any relatedInternal Revenue Service rulings and any related case law and, if the Company reasonablyrequests that Executive take action to mitigate or challenge, or to mitigate and challenge,any such tax or assessment (other than waiving Executive’s right to any payments or benefitsin excess of the payments or benefits which Executive has expressly agreed to waive underthis §4.2(g)) and Executive complies with such request, the Company shall provide Executivewith such information and such expert advice and assistance from the Company’s independentaccountants, lawyers and other advisors as Executive may reasonably request and shall payfor all expenses incurred in effecting such compliance and any related fines, penalties,interest and other assessments.     4.3. Termination By The Company For Cause or By Executive Other Than For Good Reason.If the Company terminates Executive’s employment for Cause or Executive resigns other than for GoodReason, the Company’s only obligation to Executive under this Employment Agreement shall (subjectto applicable withholdings) be to pay Executive’s base salary and annual bonus, if any, which weredue and payable on the date Executive’s employment terminated and to reimburse Executive forexpenses Executive had already incurred and which would have otherwise been reimbursed but for suchtermination of employment.     4.4. Termination for Disability or Death.     (a) General. The Company shall have the right to terminate Executive’semployment on or after the date Executive has a Disability, and Executive’s employment shallterminate at Executive’s death.     (b) Base Salary and Bonus. If Executive’s employment terminates under this §4.4, the Company’s only obligation under this Employment Agreement shall (subject toapplicable withholdings) be (1) to pay Executive or, if Executive dies, Executive’s estatethe base salary and annual bonus, if any, which were due and payable on the date Executive’semployment terminated and (2) to reimburse Executive or, if Executive dies,
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Executive’s estate for any expenses which Executive had already incurred and whichwould have otherwise been reimbursed but for such termination of employment.     4.5. Benefits at Termination of Employment. Executive upon Executive’s terminationof employment shall have the right to receive any benefits payable under the Company’s employeebenefit plans, programs and policies which Executive otherwise has a nonforfeitable right toreceive under the terms of such plans, programs and policies independent of Executive’s rightsunder this Employment Agreement; however, if a payment is made to Executive under § 4.2(a) or §4.2(b), such payment shall be in lieu of any severance pay under any severance pay plan, program orpolicy.§ 5. COVENANTS BY EXECUTIVE     5.1. Company Property.     (a) General. Executive upon the termination of Executive’s employment forany reason or, if earlier, upon the Company’s request shall promptly return allProperty(as defined in § 5.1(b)) which had been entrusted or made available to Executive by theCompany and, if any copy of any such Property was made by, or for, Executive, each andevery copy of such Property.     (b) Property. The term “Property” means records, files, memoranda, tapes,computer disks, reports, price lists, customer lists, drawings, plans, sketches, keys,computer hardware and software, cellular telephones, credit cards, access cards,identification cards, personal data assistants and the like, company cars and othertangiblepersonal property of any kind or description.     5.2. Trade Secrets.     (a) General. Executive agrees that Executive will hold in a fiduciary capacityfor the benefit of the Company and each of its affiliates, and will not directly orindirectlyuse or disclose to any person not authorized by the Company, any Trade Secret (asdefined in § 5.2(b)) of the Company or its affiliates that Executive may have acquired(whether or not developed or compiled by Executive and whether or not Executive isauthorized to have access to such information) during the term of, and in the courseof, oras a result of Executive’s employment by the Company or its affiliates for so long assuchinformation remains a Trade Secret.     (b) Trade Secret. The term “Trade Secret” for purposes of this EmploymentAgreement means information, including, but not limited to, technical or nontechnicaldata, a formula, a pattern, a compilation, a program, a device, a method, a technique,a drawing, a process, financial data, financial plans, product plans, or a list of actualor potential customers or suppliers that (1) derives economic value, actual or potential,from not being generally known to, and not being generally readily ascertainable by propermeans by, other persons who can obtain economic value from its disclosure or use and(2) is the subject of reasonable efforts by the Company and its affiliates to maintainits secrecy.     (c) Additional Rights. This § 5.2 is intended to provide rights to theCompany and its affiliates which are in addition to, not in lieu of, those rightstheCompany and its affiliates have under the common law or applicable statutes fortheprotection of trade secrets.
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     5.3. Confidential Information.     (a) General. Executive while employed under this Employment Agreementand thereafter during the Restricted Period (as defined in § 5.4) shall hold in afiduciarycapacity for the benefit of the Company and its affiliates, and shall not directly orindirectly use or disclose to any person not authorized by the Company, anyConfidentialInformation (as defined in § 5.3(b)) of the Company or its affiliates that Executivemayhave acquired (whether or not developed or compiled by Executive and whether or notExecutive is authorized to have access to such information) during the term of, and inthecourse of, or as a result of Executive’s employment by the Company or its affiliates.     (b) Confidential Information. The term “Confidential Information” forpurposes of this Employment Agreement means any secret, confidential or proprietaryinformation possessed by the Company or its affiliates relating to their businesses,including, without limitation, customer lists, details of client or consultantcontracts,current and anticipated customer requirements, pricing policies, price lists, marketstudies, business plans, operational methods, marketing plans or strategies, productdevelopment techniques or flaws, computer software programs (including object codesand source codes), data and documentation, base technologies, systems, structures andarchitectures, inventions and ideas, past, current and planned research anddevelopment,compilations, devices, methods, techniques, processes, future business plans, licensingstrategies, advertising campaigns, financial information and data, business acquisitionplans and new personnel acquisition plans (not otherwise included in the definition ofaTrade Secret under this Employment Agreement) that has not become generally availableto the public by the act of one who has the right to disclose such information withoutviolating any right of the Company or its affiliates.     (c) Additional Rights. This § 5.3 is intended to provide rights to theCompany and its affiliates which are in addition to, not in lieu of, those rightstheCompany and its affiliates have under the common law or applicable statutes fortheprotection of confidential information.     5.4. Restricted Period. The term “Restricted Period” for purposes of this EmploymentAgreement shall mean the one-year period following termination of Executive’s employment.     5.5. Nonsolicitation of Customers or Employees.     (a) Customers. Executive, while employed under this EmploymentAgreement and thereafter during the Restricted Period, shall not, on Executive’s ownbehalf or on behalf of any person, firm partnership, association, corporation orbusinessorganization, entity or enterprise, call on or solicit for the purpose of competingwith theCompany or its affiliates any customers of the Company or its affiliates with whomExecutive had contact, knowledge, or association at any time during Executive’semployment with the Company or its affiliates, or with respect to the RestrictedPeriod, atany time during the twelve (12) month period immediately preceding the beginning of theRestricted Period.     (b) Employees. Executive, while employed under this EmploymentAgreement and thereafter during the Restricted Period, shall not, either directly orindirectly, call on, solicit or attempt to induce any other officer, employee orindependent
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contractor of the Company or its affiliates with whom Executive had contact, knowledge of,or association at any time during Executive’s employment with the Company or its affiliates,or with respect to the Restricted Period, at any time during the twelve (12) month periodimmediately preceding the beginning of the Restricted Period, to terminate his or heremployment or business relationship with the Company or its or its affiliates and shall notassist any other person or entity in such a solicitation.     5.6. Intellectual Property Rights. Executive hereby unconditionally and irrevocablyassigns to the Company all of Executive’s right, title and interest in any ideas, inventions,trademarks, copyrights, developments and improvements that Executive conceives, alone or withothers, during the Term, whether or not conceived during working hours, which are within thescope of the Company’s business operations or relate to any of the Company’s work, projects orresearch activities, all of which shall be referred to as “Intellectual Property,” andExecutive shallassist the Company, at the Company’s expense, in obtaining patents, copyright and trademarkregistrations for Intellectual Property, execute and deliver all documents and do any and allthings necessary and proper on Executive’s part to obtain such patents and copyright andtrademark registrations and execute specific assignments and other documents for suchIntellectual Property as may be considered necessary or appropriate by the Company at any timeduring Executive’s employment. This § 5.6 shall not apply to any invention that Executivedevelops entirely on Executive’s own time without using the Company’s equipment, supplies,facilities or trade secret or confidential information. Executive agrees not placeIntellectualProperty in the public domain or disclose any inventions to third parties without the priorwrittenconsent of the Company.     5.7. Non-Compete. Executive and the Company agree that (a) the Company isengaged in the family entertainment resort business featuring indoor waterparks, which shallbereferred to as the “Business,” (b) the Business can be conducted anywhere, (c) the Businesscanbe and is available to any person or entity with access to sufficient capital, (d) theBusinessconsequently has no geographic boundary or limitation and will have none during the Term, (e)Executive is, and is expected to continue to be during the Term, intimately involved in theBusiness wherever it operates, and (f) this § 5.7 is intended to provide fair and reasonableprotection to the Company in light of the unique circumstances of the Business. Executivetherefore agrees that Executive shall not during the Term and for the one (1) year periodwhichstarts on the date Executive’s employment terminates under this Employment Agreementcompete with the Company within fifty (50) miles of a location where the Company conducts itsBusiness or is planning to conduct its Business; provided, however, Executive may own up tofive percent (5%) of the stock of a publicly traded company that engages in such competitivebusiness so long as Executive is only a passive investor and is not actively involved in suchcompany in any way.     5.8. Reasonable and Continuing Obligations. Executive agrees that Executive’sobligations under this § 5 are obligations which will continue beyond the date Executive’semployment terminates and that such obligations are reasonable and necessary to protect theCompany’s legitimate business interests. The Company in addition shall have the right to takesuch other action as the Company deems necessary or appropriate to compel compliance with theprovisions of this § 5.     5.9. Remedy for Breach. Executive agrees that the remedies at law of the Companyfor any actual or threatened breach by Executive of the covenants in this § 5 would beinadequate
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and that the Company shall be entitled to specific performance of the covenants in this § 5,including entry of an exparte, temporary restraining order in state or federal court, preliminaryand permanent injunctive relief against activities in violation of this § 5, or both, or otherappropriate judicial remedy, writ or order, in addition to any damages and legal expenses which theCompany may be legally entitled to recover. Executive acknowledges and agrees that the covenants inthis § 5 shall be construed as agreements independent of any other provision of this or any otheragreement between the Company and Executive, and that the existence of any claim or cause of actionby Executive against the Company, whether predicated upon this Employment Agreement or any otheragreement, shall not constitute a defense to the enforcement by the Company of such covenants.§ 6. MISCELLANEOUS     6.1. Notices. Notices and all other communications shall be in writing and shall bedeemed to have been duly given when personally delivered or when mailed by United Statesregistered or certified mail. Notices to the Company shall be sent to 122 West WashingtonAvenue, 10th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin 53703, Attention: General Counsel. Noticesandcommunications to Executive shall be sent to the address Executive most recently provided tothe Company.     6.2.  No Waiver. Except for the notice described in § 6.1, no failure by either theCompany or Executive at any time to give notice of any breach by the other of, or to requirecompliance with, any condition or provision of this Employment Agreement shall be deemed awaiver of any provisions or conditions of this Employment Agreement.     6.3. Choice of Law and Courts. This Employment Agreement shall be governed byDelaware law (except to the extent that its choice of law provisions would call for theapplicationof the law of another jurisdiction), and (subject to § 6.8) any action that may be brought byeitherthe Company or Executive involving the enforcement of this Employment Agreement or anyrights, duties, or obligations under this Employment Agreement, shall be brought exclusivelyinthe state or federal courts sitting in Delaware, and Executive consents and waives anyobjectionto personal jurisdiction and venue in these courts for any such action.     6.4. Assignment and Binding Effect. This Employment Agreement shall be bindingupon and inure to the benefit of the Company and any successor to all or substantially all ofthebusiness or assets of the Company. In the event the IPO Closing Date does not occur on orpriorto March 31,2005, this Employment Agreement shall become void and shall cease to have anyforce or effect.     The Company may assign this Employment Agreement to any affiliate or successor, and no suchassignment shall be treated as a termination of Executive’s employment under this EmploymentAgreement. Executive’s rights and obligations under this Employment Agreement are personal andshall not be assigned or transferred. Any such assignment or attempted assignment by Executiveshall be null, void, and of no legal effect.     6.5. Other Agreements. This Employment Agreement replaces and merges any and allprevious agreements and understandings regarding all the terms and conditions of Executive’semployment relationship with the Company, and this Employment Agreement constitutes theentire agreement of the Company and Executive with respect to such terms and conditions.
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     6.6. Amendment. Except as provided in § 6.7, no amendment or modification to thisEmployment Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by the Company andby Executive.     6.7.  Severability. If any provision of this Employment Agreement shall be foundinvalid or unenforceable, in whole or in part, then such provision shall be deemed to bemodifiedor restricted to the extent and in the manner necessary to render such provision valid andenforceable, or shall be deemed excised from this Employment Agreement, as may be requiredunder applicable law, and this Employment Agreement shall be construed and enforced to themaximum extent permitted by applicable law, as if such provision had been originallyincorporated in this Employment Agreement as so modified or restricted, or as if suchprovisionhad not been originally incorporated in this Employment Agreement, as the case may be.     6.8 Arbitration. The Company shall have the right to obtain an injunction or otherequitable relief arising out of the Executive’s breach of the provisions of § 5 of thisEmploymentAgreement. However, any other controversy or claim arising out of or relating to thisEmployment Agreement or any alleged breach of this Employment Agreement shall be settledby binding arbitration in Delaware in accordance with the rules of the American ArbitrationAssociation then applicable to employment-related disputes and any judgment upon any award,which may include an award of damages, may be entered in the highest state or federal courthaving jurisdiction over such award. In the event of the termination of Executive’semployment,Executive’s sole remedy shall be arbitration under this § 6.8 and any award of damages shallbelimited to recovery of lost compensation and benefits provided for in this EmploymentAgreement. No punitive damages may be awarded to Executive. The Company and Executiveshall split equally all reasonable fees of the arbitrator.     6.9 Executive’s Legal Fees and Expenses. The Company shall (a) reimburseExecutive for all reasonable costs incurred by Executive in bringing a proceeding to enforcetheterms of this Employment Agreement, including without limitation all reasonable costs ofinvestigation and reasonable attorneys fees and expenses and (b) make a payment to or onbehalfof Executive which shall be sufficient to pay 100% of any federal, state and local income taxonthe reimbursement and payments made to Executive under this § 6.9. Further, the Companyshall make one or more Gross-Up Payments under § 4.2(g) if the Excise Tax under § 4.2(g) isapplicable to any amounts paid under this § 6.9.     6.10 Release. As a condition to the Company’s making any payments to Executiveafter Executive’s termination of employment under this Employment Agreement (other than thecompensation earned before such termination and the benefits due under the Company’semployee benefit plans without regard to the terms of this Employment Agreement), Executiveor, if Executive is deceased, Executive’s estate shall execute a release in the form of thereleaseattached to this Employment Agreement as Exhibit A, or in such other form as is acceptable tothe Company and Executive.     6.11  Counterparts. This Employment Agreement may be executed in counterparts,each of which will be deemed an original, but all of which together will constitute one andthesame Employment Agreement.     6.12 Headings; References. The headings and captions used in this EmploymentAgreement are used for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing orinterpreting this Employment Agreement. Any reference to a section (§) shall be to a section(§)
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of this Employment Agreement absent an express statement to the contrary in this EmploymentAgreement.IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company and Executive have executed this Employment Agreement inmultiple originals to be effective on the IPO Closing Date.      GREAT WOLF RESORTS, INC.