Document:

Exhibit

Exhibit 10.1

September 29, 2015

Russell Tiejema
[Address]

Dear Russ:

I am extremely pleased to offer you the position of Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of Masonite  based in Tampa, FL.  Details of your offer are as follows:
    
		
	Position:
	=    Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

		
	Compensation:
	=    Base Salary:  $400,000 annually and paid bi-weekly

		
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	Short-Term Incentive:  Eligible to participate in the Management Incentive Plan (MIP) per the plan guidelines and as approved by Masonite’s Leadership Team and Board of Directors. Your current target eligibility is 60% of your salary.  You will be eligible to participate in the 2016 plan payable in 2017 based on your expected start date of November 2, 2015.

		
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	Long-Term Incentive New Hire Award:  Upon hire you will be granted an Equity Award of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs) with a grant date value equal to $700,000.  The number of RSUs will be calculated using Masonite’s closing stock price on the trading day immediately prior to the grant date.  The RSUs will vest as follows: 25% on the first anniversary of the grant date, 25% on the second anniversary of the grant date and 50% on the third anniversary of the grant date.  The RSUs will be subject to the terms and conditions of an RSU agreement that will be provided to you to sign and acknowledge upon your hire.

		
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	Annual LTI Award:  Your position makes you eligible for participation in our Annual Equity Award program, as approved by the Masonite Board of Directors, beginning with the 2016 grant expected to occur in February/March of 2016.  The target for your position is currently 125% of your base salary. Details of this annual grant will be outlined in an Award Agreement that will be presented following the award.

Masonite Corporation
One Tampa City Center ▪ 201 N Franklin Street ▪ Suite 300 ▪ Tampa, FL  33602 • Telephone: (813) 877-2726
www.masonite.com

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	Sign-On Bonus:  You will receive a one-time cash award bonus of $150,000, less applicable withholdings, payable at the end of Q1, 2016.  This bonus will include a reimbursement agreement should you choose to leave the company prior to completing two years of employment. If you voluntarily terminate your employment within 24 months of the payment of the signing bonus, a sliding payback scale would be used. 0-12 months, 100%; 13-18 months, 75%; 19-24 months, 50% of the net amount to be paid back.

		
	Additional: 
	=     Relocation:  You are eligible for company assistance to relocate from your current residence to the Tampa area, through the Masonite Relocation Program “A”, which includes a tax-assisted lump sum miscellaneous allowance of $30,000, available once the relocation actions have been authorized. This program includes a reimbursement schedule. If voluntary termination occurs within 24 months of relocation, a sliding payback scale would be used. 0-12 months, 100%; 13-18 months, 75%; 19-24 months, 50% to be paid back.

		
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	Full benefits package as per policy including participation in the company's 401k. Company match would begin at 1 year anniversary.

		
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	Annual 20 days of vacation, prorated for monthly accrual.

Your offer is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of a drug screen and background check, and will require that you sign our Employee Confidentiality, Inventions and Intellectual Property Agreement.  Further information in regard to the background and drug screening will be sent in a separate email from Linda Bothwell.  Based on our discussion, I anticipate your start date will be November 2, 2015.

Russ, we look forward to having you join Masonite and our team.  We are very confident that your experience and personal business style will solidly contribute to Masonite’s future success and that you will grow and develop from the opportunities that exist at Masonite.

Please indicate your acceptance of this offer by signing the enclosed employment offer document and scanning it directly to Linda Bothwell.  Upon receipt, we will provide the pre-employment package and discuss the next steps.

Masonite Corporation
One Tampa City Center ▪ 201 N Franklin Street ▪ Suite 300 ▪ Tampa, FL  33602 • Telephone: (813) 877-2726
www.masonite.com

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To help you get acquainted with our company, please take a few minutes to explore our Mploy Orientation website at _____________________.

Please do not hesitate to call me with any questions you may have. 

Sincerely,

Fred Lynch
President & Chief Executive Officer

cc:    Gail Auerbach
Employee file

Masonite Corporation
One Tampa City Center ▪ 201 N Franklin Street ▪ Suite 300 ▪ Tampa, FL  33602 • Telephone: (813) 877-2726
www.masonite.com

CONFIDENTIAL

EMPLOYMENT OFFER 

Please indicate your acceptance of our offer for Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer with Masonite by signing below and returning to _______________, Masonite, One Tampa City Center, 201 N. Franklin Street, Suite 300, Tampa, FL  33602.

I accept the offer as outlined in the attached letter dated September 29, 2015.

	
		
	                                                                                 
	                                              

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Masonite Corporation
One Tampa City Center ▪ 201 N Franklin Street ▪ Suite 300 ▪ Tampa, FL  33602 • Telephone: (813) 877-2726
www.masonite.comExhibit 10.8

 

The Transfer Agreement for Land Use
Right

 

Contractee: The People’s Government of
Shuangcheng District of Harbin

(hereinafter Party A)

 

Contractor: Heilongjiang Xinhua Cattle Co., Ltd.
(hereinafter Party B)

 

According
to the PRC Law on Land Management and Contract law of the PRC and  other  relative  law,  regulation and  the provision,
both  Party  A  and  Party  B negotiate and sign this contract with the principle of equality, voluntary, the principle of compensation.
Both Parties shall keep promise and execute together.

 

	I	The Area of Land and its Covering

 

	 	1.	Party A rent the land and its infrastructure to Party B for the usage of breeding dairy cow, which located at Shengyong Cun Qianjin
County, Shuangcheng District, Harbin, Heilongjiang. The land area is 425 mu, and service life is 30 years.
	 	2.	Party A transfer the land of the land use right with cattle farm, dormitory and office building. The construction area of the
cattle farm is 42100 square meters, the construction area of the dormitory is 3000 square meters, and the construction
are of the office building is 3000 square meters.

 

	II	Contracting Fee and Payments

 

		i.	Contracting fee

 

		1.	The contract fee of the land use right is RMB 27412500
yuan, 6450 yuan per mu.

		2.	The infrastructure usage fee: The cattle farming usage
fee is 73675000 yuan, dormitory usage fee is 5400000 yuan, and the office building usage fee is 5400000 yuan.

		3.	The totally amount of the land and its infrastructure is
RMB 111887500 yuan, (the Capital amount: ONE HUNDRED AND ELEVEN MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-SEVEN
THOUSAND AND FIVE HUNDRED)

 

		ii.	Payment

 

		1.	Within three month since the date of signing this
contract, Party B clear-up pay the land contracting fee and the its infrastructure usage fee, and the Party B shall chose the
installment plan to pay the fee to Party A.

		2.	Party A transfers the right to the use of land and the
right to the use of cattle farming, dormitory, and the office building within a year of the date of signing this contract.

 

    

     

    

 

	III	The Right and Obligation of Party A

 

		1.	Supervise
the exploitation
and utilization
of land,
and make
sure to
utilize
the land rationally according to the designated use in the contract.

		2.	According to the contract to charge the land contracting
fee, Party A shall not increase the land contracting fee randomly in the term of contract.

		3.	Party A shall grantee Party B operate independently and
Party A cannot violate the legal right of Party B

		4.	Party A has the right to reconstruct the cattle farm, dormitory
and office building, also has the right to establish other infrastructure for business

		5.	Make sure the water, power runs smooth and provide the
road to contracting land for free

		6.	In the contract life, Party A shall not subcontract the
land.

 

	IV	The Rights and Obligations of Part B

 

		1.	Party
                                         B has the right to use and operate the contracting land according to the usage and term
                                         on the contract.

		2.	Party
                                         B has the rights to yield of the contracting land and the right of use to construct and
                                         purchase property according to the contract.

		3.	Enjoy the preferential policies that the nation provided.

		4.	Has the right to use the public facilities.

		5.	Party
                                         B shall construct the facilities that related to the manufacture and life on the contracting
                                         land

		6.	Party
                                         B shall not use the land with the contracted management right to pay off the debt.

		7.	Preserve
                                         the natural resource and environment, converse the water and land and utilize the land
                                         reasonability.

 

	V	Subcontracting

 

		1.	In the term of the contract, Party B shall subcontract
the land or the part of the land to a third party in principle of voluntary and mutual benefit after the permission of the Party
A.

		2.	The subcontracting contact are necessary signed, and cannot
change the content of the original contract.

		3.	After the subcontracting the contract, Party A and Party
B shall continue to execute the right and take the obligation as the original contract. Party B together with a third party shall
execute the right and take the obligation to according to the subcontracting contract.

 

	VI	The Contracted Management Term of the Land and its Facilities

 

The
contracted management term is 30 years, from May 14,2015 to May 13, 2045. Expect for the national special
expropriation, Party B shall use the land in the term of contract.

 

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	VII	Change and Termination of Contract

 

		1.	This contract comes into effect since the date of signing. Any
                                                                                                                                     Party shall not change or terminate the contract,
                                                                                                                                     unless
                                                                                                                                     the two Parties negotiation to sign the
                                                                                                                                     written contract and then can change and terminate this contract.

		2.	In the term of contract, the changing of legal representatives
or personnel of any parties cannot change and terminate this contract.

		3.	In the term of contract, the contract could change or terminate
without taking any responsibilities when the contract unable to fulfill because of the force majeure.

		4.	In the term of contract, Party A should pay the fee for
the construction equipment on the land to Party B and give the relevant compensation in accordance with the contracted management
life and the actual situation of exploitation and utilization when it occurs to the government expropriate this land.

		5.	If Party A re-contracts the contracted land or cut off
the power, water, or the road to make the Party B unable to operate, Party B has the right to terminate this contract, and the
Party A shall take liability for breach the contract.

		6.	Party B has the prior right to continue to contract when
it gets to the expiration of the contract. The two parties shall renew this contract half of the year before the expiration.

 

	VIII	Liability of Breach of Contract

 

In the
term of contract, any Party violates the contract or releases the contract without any reasonable reason, the party who violate
the contract must take all the losses when it causes the actual loss to the other side. If the contract cannot carry out because
of the force majeure, both Parties can terminate the contract.

 

	IX	Dispute Resolutions

 

If
the dispute occurs in the process of carrying out the contract, both Parties should compromise settlement. If the settlement was
failed, both Parties agree to apply to mediation. If the mediation was failed, both Parties can sue to the jurisdictional people’s
court.

 

	X	The Contract Comes into Effect since the Date of Signing

 

	XI	For the unfinished matters of contract, both Parties can sign a supplementary agreement after the consensus; the supplementary
agreement has the same legal force as the contract.

 

	XII	The contract is done in triplicate, each Party holds one copy with the same force.

 

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Contractee: the People’s Government of Shuangcheng
District in Harbin

Signature:

 

 

 

Contractor: Heilongjiang Xinhua Cattle Co.,
Ltd.

Signature:

 

 

 

Date of Signing: May 14, 2014

Place of signing: Harbin, Heilongjiang Province

 

 

 

 

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