“Confidential Information” means information regarding the Company and its Affiliates that is not generally available to the public, including (to the extent that it is not so generally available): # information regarding the Company’s and its Affiliates’ business, operations, financial condition, students, vendors, sales representatives and other employees; # projections, budgets and business plans regarding the Company and its Affiliates; # information regarding the Company’s and its Affiliates’ planned or pending acquisitions, divestitures or other business combinations; # the Company’s and its Affiliates’ trade secrets and proprietary information; and # the Company’s and its Affiliates’ technical information, , discoveries, inventions, improvements, techniques, processes, business methods, equipment, software programs, software source documents and formulae. For purposes of the preceding sentence, information is not treated as being generally available to the public if it is made public by Executive in violation of this Agreement. “Confidentiality Period” means the period beginning on the date hereof and ending three years after the last date Executive is employed by the Company.

“Confidential Information” means any and all information of the Company and its Affiliates that is not generally available to the public. Confidential Information also includes any information received by the Company or any of its Affiliates from any Person with any understanding, express or implied, that it will not be disclosed. Confidential Information does not include information that enters the public domain, other than through the Executive’s breach of his obligations under this Agreement or any other agreement between the Executive and the Company or any of its Affiliates.

“Confidential Information” means any information, knowledge or data of any nature and in any form (including, without limitation, any information that is electronically transmitted or stored on any form of magnetic or electronic storage media) relating to the past, current or prospective business or operations of the Company and its Affiliates (including, without limitation, the Business as conducted by the Company and its Affiliates), that at the time or times concerned is not generally known to Persons engaged in businesses similar to the Business or those conducted or contemplated by the Company and its Affiliates (other than information known by such persons or entities through a violation of an obligation of confidentiality to the Company), whether produced by the Company and its Affiliates or any of their consultants, agents, or independent contractors or by the Executive in the course of his performance of services for the Company and its Affiliates, and whether or not marked confidential, including without limitation information relating to products and services, business plans, business acquisitions, processes, formulas, product or service research and development methods or techniques, training methods and other operational methods or techniques, quality assurance procedures or standards, operating procedures, files, plans, specifications, proposals, drawings, charts, graphs, support data, inventions and improvements, trade secrets, intellectual property or other proprietary information, supplier lists, supplier information, purchasing methods or practices, distribution and selling activities, consultants’ reports, marketing and engineering or other technical studies, maintenance records, employment or personnel data, marketing data, strategies or techniques, financial reports, budgets, projections, cost analyses, price lists and analyses, employee lists, customer lists, customer source lists, proprietary computer software, and internal notes and memoranda relating to any of the foregoing. For the avoidance of doubt, “Confidential Information” shall not include information, knowledge or data # generally known to persons or entities engaged in businesses similar to the Business or those conducted or contemplated by the Company and its Affiliates (other than information known by such persons or entities through a violation of an obligation of confidentiality to the Company), # that was known to Executive prior to Executive performing services for the Company and/or any of its Affiliates, # that after the termination of Executive’s employment with the Company comes into the possession of Executive from a third party who to Executive’s knowledge is not prohibited by duties of confidentiality to the Company from disclosing such information to Executive or # that after the termination of Executive’s employment with the Company is independently developed by Executive without use of and/or reference to any Confidential Information of the Company or its Affiliates.