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Annual Board Service Retainer
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Each Non-Employee Director shall receive an annual retainer for service on the Board (the “Base Retainer”) and additional annual retainers for service as Chairman of the Board or Lead Independent Director or for service on a committee of the Board (each, a “Committee Member Retainer” and together with the Base Retainer, the “Annual Retainers”) as follows:

Chairman of the Board or Lead Independent Director. A Non-Employee Director serving as Chairman of the Board or Lead Independent Director shall receive an additional annual retainer of $30,000 for such service, unless such Non-Employee Director who is serving as Chairman is also serving as the Lead Independent Director.

Chairman of the Board or Lead Independent Director. A Non-Employee Director serving as Chairman of the Board or Lead Independent Director shall receive an additional annual retainer of $25,000 for such service.

Each Director that is not an employee of the Company or any of its affiliates (each, a “Non-Employee Director”) shall receive the following annual cash retainer fees (collectively, the “Cash Retainer Fees”) based on his or her service as a Director, Chair of a Committee and/or member of a Committee:

For the avoidance of doubt, the Annual Retainers in the table above are additive and a Non-Employee Director shall be eligible to earn an Annual Retainer for each position in which he or she serves; provided that, the Chair of the Board shall be eligible to receive the Base Board Fee for Chair of the Board as set forth in the table above, and shall not also receive the Base Board Fee for non-Chair members of the Board. The Annual Retainers shall be earned on a quarterly basis based on a calendar quarter and shall be paid in cash by the Company in arrears not later than the fifteenth day following the end of each calendar quarter. In the event a Non-Employee Director does not serve as a Non-Employee Director, or in the applicable position, for an entire calendar quarter, the retainer paid to such Non-Employee Director shall be prorated for the portion of such calendar quarter actually served as a Non-Employee Director, or in such position, as applicable.

Additional Annual Retainers. In addition, each Non-Employee Director shall receive the following additional annual retainers, as applicable:

Annual Retainers. Each Non-Employee Director shall receive an annual retainer of $75,000 for service on the Board. Each Non-Employee Director shall also receive $5,000 annually in addition to the annual retainer for serving as a Board Chair for one of the three (3) established Board Committees: Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

A $35,000 annual cash retainer will be paid to each non-employee director for his or her service on the Board, and additional annual cash retainer(s) will be paid to the chairperson of the Board (if one is then appointed), each non-employee director chairperson of a committee of the Board, and each non-employee director serving as a member of a committee of the Board (other than as chairperson of such committee) as follows:

Under the policy, each of our non-employee, independent directors is eligible to receive annual retainers for board and committee service as follows:

Additional Annual Retainers. In addition, each Non-Employee Director shall receive the following annual retainers:

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