**Exhibit 10.14**EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTThe undersigned:The Accenture partnership, having its registered office and principal place of business inAmsterdam (1077 BG) at 150 Apollolaan, hereinafter referred to as: ‘the employer’;and                                        ;hereinafter referred to as: ‘the employee’;WHEREAS(a) this employment contract is to be concluded within the framework of the (worldwide)restructuring of Accenture and its affiliated enterprises, including the employer;(b) the employer will, until the transfer of shares referred to below, be a partner in theAccenture partnership via its operating company of which it (indirectly) holds all shares;(c) the relationships between the individual partners in the Accenture partnership were controlledby a Partnership Agreement, including, among other things, provisions relating to the terminationand financial settlement of the relationship between the parties, and relating to non-competition;(d) within the framework of the aforementioned restructuring, the legal form of the Accenturepartnership will be converted into a new private company with limited liability named AccentureBV., still to be founded. For this latter purpose all individual partners will, on or around May15, transfer their shares in their operating companies, which currently collectively constitute theAccenture partnership, or have such shares transferred, to Accenture Ltd., an entity in accordancewith Bermuda law, in exchange for shares in Accenture Ltd. By means of a legal merger between theoperating companies and Accenture B.V. the Accenture partnership will cease to exist on or aroundSeptember 1, 2001 and its activities will be continued in Accenture B.V.;(e) the Dutch individual partners in the Accenture partnership will, from the moment of transfer oftheir shares in the operating
 

 
companies to Accenture Ltd., conclude an employment contract with the Accenture partnership;(f) the parties aim to maintain, as much as possible within the framework of Dutch labor law, thecharacter of the partnership relationship that (indirectly) existed between them;(g) the rights and duties arising from the employment contract for the employer and/or its legalsuccessors and for the Employee are set out below;STATE THAT THEY HAVE AGREED THE FOLLOWING:**Article 1 Commencement, duration and termination**1. The employment contract will take effect on May 15, 2001 and will be concluded for an indefiniteperiod of time. Employee will, from June 1, 2001, be entitled to a salary as referred to in Article3 of this contract.2. This employment contract may be terminated by either party in writing at the end of eachcalendar month. The employee will observe a notice period of two months unless the employer agreesin writing to a shorter notice period. With regard to termination, the employer will observe anotice period of four months.3. The employment contract between the employer and the employee will in any case terminate byoperation of law, without notification being required, at the end of the month in which theemployee attains the age of sixty-two.**Article 2 Position and duties**1. The employee will be employed by the employer in the position of partner.2. The employee will work for the employer to the best of his ability and to his full capacity.3. The employee will carry out tasks other than those that comprise the employee’s usual work ifsuch tasks, in view of the employee’s position and duties within the employer’s organization, canreasonably be demanded from the employee.4. For the duration of the period of employment, the employee will not carry out other paid work orwork by gratuitous title without the
 

 
employer’s prior approval in writing, nor establish, operate or jointly operate an enterprise orhave an enterprise operated in any form of competition with the employer’s company, or have aninterest, whether direct, indirect, or in any form whatsoever, in such an enterprise or work forsuch an enterprise, whether for payment or otherwise.5. For each violation of the prohibition referred to in paragraph 4, the employee will forfeit animmediately payable penalty of NLG 4,000 for each day or part of a day during which the violationvis-à-vis the employer continues, without prejudice to the employer’s entitlement to claimcompensation in lieu of the penalty sum.**Article 3 Salary**1. The employee’s gross annual salary will be determined, paid and based on the worldwide PartnerPolicies as these policies apply, or will apply, to the employee currently in the future. Detailsof these Partner Policies are known to the employee via the Partner Policies Database. As a resultof the salary system utilized, the salary may fluctuate from year to year.2. A vacation bonus and any other emoluments will be included in the gross annual salary, unlessexpressly agreed otherwise in this contract.**Article 4 Working hours and place of work**1. The normal working week runs from Monday through Friday. Normal working hours amount to 40 hoursper week.2. The employee will carry out work outside company working hours and normal working hours withoutthe employer owing any additional payment, if the employee’s duties and position reasonably requiresuch work.3. The employee will perform his duties at a location indicated by the employer. The employer willbe entitled to change locations. Depending on the employee’s position, a situation may occur inwhich the employee, in spite of a fixed work location, may have to carry out work primarily at adifferent location as indicated by the employer.
 

 
**Article 5 Car**The employer will provide the employee with a leased car for the execution of his duties. Such willtake place in accordance with the terms set out in the leased car regulations as laid down in theemployer’s terms and conditions of employment . At the commencement of this contract the carallowance will amount to NLG 3,500 per month.**Article 6 Pension and insurance**1. The employee is excluded from participation in pension plans A or B and all other associatedschemes (including the supplementary disability allowance and the Surviving Dependant’s Insurance)relating to the collective pension insurance policy concluded by the employer with AMEVLevensverzekering N.V.**Article 7 Vacation**1. The employee will be entitled to 25 days’ vacation per year, or a proportion thereof if theemployment contract ends during the course of a year.2. The employer may assign 1 (one) of the vacation days as a mandatory day off.**Article 8 Sickness and incapacity for work**1. In the event of sickness, the employee will strictly observe the regulations concerning thereporting of sickness and recovery as set out in the employer’s terms and conditions of employment.2. Non-compliance with the sickness regulations as referred to in the employer’s terms andconditions of employment will entitle the employer to suspend its obligation concerning sick leaveon full pay until the point in time that the employee complies with the aforementioned regulations.3. If the employee fails to comply with any of the inspection regulations, the employee willforfeit a penalty of NLG 500. The aforementioned penalty will be without prejudice to theemployer’s entitlement to suspend its obligation concerning sick leave on full pay, as referred toin Article 8, paragraph 2.4. The employee is forbidden from becoming deliberately sick. If the employee, in violation of theaforementioned prohibition, has caused
 

 
his sickness deliberately, the employer will be entitled to withhold payment of salary.5. If incapacity for work is caused through the actions of an accountable third party, the employeewill cooperate fully including with regard to the submission to the Working Conditions Service orthe Company Medical Officer of any medical data required to enable Employer to exercise in full itsright of recourse.**Article 9 Confidentiality**1. Both during and after termination of the employment contract, the employee is not permitted, inany way or form, directly or indirectly, whether for his own benefit of that of third parties, tomake known or reveal any particulars concerning or related to the employer’s business or anassociated company, or their clients, principals or any other business contacts without theemployer’s prior permission in writing, in relation to which particulars the employee could orshould reasonably understand are not intended to be made known to third parties, regardless of themanner in which such particulars came to the employee’s knowledge, except in so far as such isrequired for the execution of employee’s duties.2. For each violation of the duty of confidentiality as referred to in paragraph 1, the employeewill forfeit to the employer a penalty of NLG 20,000. Such forfeiture will be without prejudice tothe employer’s entitlement to claim compensation in lieu of the penalty. Furthermore, any violationof the duty of confidentiality for the duration of the employment contract may constitute acompelling reason for instant dismissal.**Article 10 Non-competition**1. For a period of 18 (eighteen) months after termination of this employment contract, the employeewill not, whether directly or indirectly, in whatever form, operate or jointly operate anenterprise or have an enterprise operated which is similar or related to the employer’s company oran associated company, or be directly or indirectly involved with such an enterprise, independentlyor as an employee, whether for payment or otherwise. The term ‘enterprise similar or related to theemployer’s company or an associated company’ as referred to in the previous sentence will be takento include, among other things , the companies listed in Appendix A to this contract, which listwill be periodically adjusted .
 

 
2. For a period of 18 (eighteen) months after the termination of this employment contract, theemployee will not, without the employer’s prior permission in writing, work for or on behalf ofthose of the employer’s clients or principals or an associated company, for which, or on behalf ofwhich, the employee has worked when in the employment of the employer or of an associated companyat any time or to any extent, in any form, directly or indirectly, whether for payment orotherwise. The clients and principals referred to in the previous sentence will include anypotential clients or principals to whom offers were submitted 18 (eighteen) months prior to thetermination of the employment contract.3. For the duration of this contract and for a period of 18 (eighteen) months after the terminationof this contract, the employee will not, without the employer’s prior permission in writing,approach the employer’s clients or principals or any company associated with the employer, forwhich the employee worked at any time or to any extent, directly or indirectly in the employee’sown interest or in the interest of third parties, in order to induce the aforementioned parties toterminate their relationship with the employer or any company associated with the employer. Theemployee will in general refrain from any activities which might have a negative effect on therelationship between the employer or any company associated with the employer.4. For the duration of this contract and for a period of 18 (eighteen) months after itstermination, the employee will not, without the employer’s prior permission in writing, induceemployees of the employer or a company associated with the employer to terminate their employmentcontract with the employer or with any company associated with the employer, or induce such partiesto fail in the fulfillment of their contractual employment obligations vis-à-vis the employer orany company associated with the employer, or their clients or principals.5. In the event of a violation of the provisions in paragraphs 1, 2, 3 or 4, the employee will,without any notification of default or judicial intervention being required, forfeit an immediatelypayable penalty of NLG 2,000 for each violation, to be increased by NLG 4,000 for each day, or partof a day, during which the violation continues, without prejudice to the employer’s entitlement toclaim compliance or to claim full compensation for the damage or loss in lieu of the penalty.
 

 
**Article 11 Intellectual property**1. The employee will transfer to the employer, that hereby accepts such a transfer, allintellectual property rights, both according to Dutch and to foreign law, relating to everythingcreated by the employer completely or partly prior to the conclusion of this contract within theframework of, or arising from the employee’s work for the employer. The employer will be entirelyfree in its decision to apply or not to apply for protection of the rights to which it is entitled.2. All rights to intellectual property, both according to Dutch and to foreign law, relating toeverything created completely or partly by the employee for the duration of this contract withinthe framework of, or arising from, this contract will accrue to the employer. In so far asintellectual property rights exist which do not accrue to the employer, the employee will, in sofar as possible, hereby transfer such rights in advance to the employer, that hereby accepts such atransfer. The employer will be entirely free in its decision whether to apply for the protection ofthe rights to which it is entitled.3. All rights to domain names registered during the period of this contract within the frameworkof, or arising from, this contract, will accrue to the employer. In so far as the employeeregisters or has registered any domain names in the employee’s own name within the framework of, orarising from, this contract or the employee’s work for the employer, such domain names will, at theemployer’s request, be transferred forthwith to the employer.4. The employee hereby surrenders any moral rights relating to the rights referred to in paragraphs1, 2 and 3, in so far as such a surrender is permitted by law.5. The employee will, for the duration of this contract and after its termination, grant fullcooperation as regards the effectuation of a transfer of rights as referred to in paragraphs 1, 2and 3, with a view to enabling the employer to register such rights in the employer’s name and toexercise such rights vis-à-vis third parties. The employee hereby grants the employer irrevocablepower of attorney to execute the relevant activities in the employer’s name. The costs of theemployee’s cooperation will be paid for by the employer.6. The employee will have no claim to the ‘Accenture’ trade name or (service) mark, or any name of(service) mark derived from it or connected to it. After termination of this contract, the employeewill
 

 
not in any way use the ‘Accenture’ name or (service) mark or any name or (service) mark derivedfrom it or connected to it.7. For the duration of this contract and after its termination, the employee will, in so far aspermitted by law, not be entitled to any payment in connection with, or on the basis of, thisarticle.**Article 12 Return of property**1. All items of property with which the employee was provided by the employer in the execution ofhis duties including, but not limited to, materials, documents, know-how and information, copied inwhatever form, information carriers and the like, including business plans, practice methodologiesand technologies (including computer software), training materials, personal information, clientfiles, confidential client information, internal publications, articles and keys, will be andremain the employer’s property.2. Upon termination of this employment contract, the employee is obliged to return all items asreferred to in paragraph 1 no later than on the final day of employment or at the employer’srequest, without retaining copies thereof.3. The employee may not retain any information as meant in paragraph 1 that is stored in a computersystem belonging to the employee or is recorded in any other form and that the employee is notobliged to relinquish or return to the employer pursuant to paragraph 2 for longer than isnecessary for the fulfillment of the employee’s duties, and must in all cases destroy thatinformation without delay if the employer so requests or at the employee’s own initiative if thiscontract is terminated.4. Any failure on the employee’s part to return the items of property as meant in paragraph 1 willresult in the forfeiture of a penalty of NLG 500, payable to the employer immediately upon demand,for each day that the employee remains in default after having been warned to return the items.This forfeiture does not impair the employer’s possibilities to claim compensation for damagesinstead of the penalty.**Article 13 Penalties**Withregard to the penalty clauses set out in Article 2 paragraph 5, Article 8 paragraph 3, Article9 paragraph 2, Article 10 paragraph 5 and Article 12 paragraph 4 of this employment contract, theemployer
 

 
and the employee expressly state, by signing this employment contract, that, with reference toArticle 7:650 paragraph 6 of the Dutch Civil Code, the penalties referred to in Articles 2, 8, 9,10 and 12 will accrue to the employer. The provision in Article 7:650 paragraphs 3 to 5 of theDutch Civil Code will consequently remain non-applicable.**Article 14 Worldwide Partner Policies**1. The worldwide Partner Policies that currently apply or will apply in the future to the employee,and which are known to the employee via the Partner Policies Database, will apply to thisemployment contract unless such policies are in violation of the provisions of Dutch mandatory law.2. The employer’s terms and conditions of employment will expressly be excluded from thisemployment contract, with the exception of those provisions which fall within the scope ofemployer’s power to instruct, or if expressly agreed otherwise in this contract.**Article 15 Partner Policies concerning termination**1. The parties will aim and strive to create a situation in which, after the termination of thiscontract, all activities will be executed in accordance with the worldwide Partner Policies asthese are currently in effect, or will be in effect in the future, and as are known to the employeevia the Partner Policies Database.2. The parties state in advance by express agreement that it is reasonable and fair, with a view tothe nature of this contract and the framework in which it is concluded, that the financialsettlement be restricted to a settlement based on the worldwide Partner Policies as thesecurrently apply or will apply in the future to the employee, and as are known to the employee viathe Partner Policies Database, and that the employee will have no other claims vis-à-vis theemployer relating to the completion of this contract.**Article 16 Data Privacy**1. The employee hereby confirms he has read the Accenture Privacy Policy (hereinafter referred toas ‘the policy’). The employee grants permission for his personal data to be processed inaccordance with this policy.
 

 
2. The employee grants permission(a) for his personal data to be processed for the purposes as defined in the policy; and(b) for the employee’s personal data, as kept by Accenture, to be transferred to other employees