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The Executive agrees that # during the term of Executive’s employment with the Company and, # during the 12-month period following the termination of Executive’s employment with the Company for any reason (the “Non-Competition Period”) within the Restricted Territory, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, engage or participate in, prepare or set up, assist or have any interest in any person, partnership, corporation, firm, association or other business organization, entity or enterprise, whether as an officer, employee, director, partner, stockholder, consultant or otherwise, that engages in the Company’s Business. Notwithstanding the foregoing, # the Executive shall not be precluded from purchasing or owning, directly or beneficially, as a passive investment, two percent (2%) or less of any class of publicly traded securities if Executive does not actively participate in or control, directly or indirectly, any investment or other decisions with respect to such entity, and # if the Board terminates the Executive’s employment following the end of the Employment Period (for any reason other than a reason that would have constituted a Termination For Cause had such termination of employment occurred during the Employment Period), then solely for purposes of this [subparagraph 7(b)(i)], the “Non-Competition Period” shall be the 3-month period following such termination of the Executive’s employment.

In consideration for the severance payments and benefits set forth in Section 1 of this Agreement, Executive agrees for a period of 12 months after the Effective Date (the “Noncompetition Restricted Period”) to not, directly or indirectly, on Executive’s own behalf or for the benefit of any other individual or entity: # operate, conduct, engage in, or own (except as a holder of not more than 1% of the outstanding stock of a publicly held company), or prepare to operate, conduct, engage in, or own any business or enterprise that develops, manufactures, markets, licenses, sells or otherwise provides, or is preparing to develop, manufacture, market, license, sell or otherwise provide, any product or service that competes with any product or service developed, manufactured, marketed, licensed, sold or otherwise provided, or planned to be developed, manufactured, marketed, licensed, sold or otherwise provided by the Company while Executive was employed by the Company (a “Competing Business”) or # participate in, render services to, or assist any individual or entity that engages in a Competing Business in any capacity (whether as an employee, manager, consultant, director, officer, contractor, or otherwise) # which involve the same or similar types of services Executive performed for the Company at any time during the last two years of Executive’s employment or engagement with the Company or # in which Executive could reasonably be expected to use or disclose Proprietary Information, in each case (i) and (ii) limited to each city, county, state, territory and country in which # Executive provided services or had a material presence or influence at any time during Executive’s last two years of employment or engagement with the Company or # the Company is engaged in or has plans to engage in the Competing Business as of the Effective Date. Without limiting the Company’s ability to seek other remedies available in law or equity, if Executive violates this Section 4(b), the Noncompetition Restricted Period shall be extended by one day for each day that Executive is in violation of such provisions, up to a maximum extension equal to the length of the Noncompetition Restricted Period, so as to give the Company the full benefit of the bargained-for length of forbearance.

Except as otherwise provided in the Agreement, during any period in which the Executive serves as an employee of the Company and for a period of two (2) years after the date of termination of the Executives employment at any time (the Non-compete Period), the Executive shall not, without the express written consent of the Board of Directors, directly or indirectly, engage, participate, invest in, be employed by or assist, whether as owner, part-owner, shareholder, partner, director, officer, trustee, employee, agent, or consultant, or in any other capacity, any business entity other than the Company and its affiliates, which develops, manufactures, sells or markets products or performs services which are directly competitive with the products or services of the Company, or products or services which the Company has under development or which are the subject of active study on the date of the termination of the Executives employment (hereinafter a Competitor). Without limiting the foregoing, the foregoing covenant shall prohibit the Executive during the period set forth above from # soliciting for or on behalf of any such Competitor any customer of the Company and # diverting to any such Competitor any customer of the Company. In addition, during the period covered by the Section 7(a), the Executive shall not hire or attempt to hire for or on behalf of any Person (including any Competitor) any officer of employee of the Company or encourage for on or behalf of any such Person (including the Competitor) any officer of employee to terminate his or his relationship or employment with the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the Executive may make passive investments in a Competitor, whether the securities of such Competitor are publicly traded, if such investment constitutes less than one percent (1%) of the outstanding shares of capital stock or comparable equity interests of the Competitor. As of the date of the Agreement, the Executive represents he is not performing any other duties for, and is not a party to any similar agreement with any Competitor. The Executive understands that the restrictions set forth in the Section 7(a) are intended to protect the Company’s interest in its proprietary information and established customer relationships and goodwill, and agrees that such restrictions are reasonable and appropriate for the purpose. For purposes of the Agreement, the term Person shall mean an individual, a corporation, an association, a partnership, a limited liability company or partnership, an estate, a trust, and any other entity or organization.

that all times during the Term and any Renewal Term and for a period of two (2) years after termination of the Executive's employment under this Agreement or any renewal or extension thereof (the "Restricted Period'), for whatever reason and in any geographic areas in which the Company operated or was actively planning on operating as of the date of termination of the Executive's employment (the "Restricted Area"), Executive will not individually or in conjunction with others, directly engage in Competition (as hereinafter defined) with the business of the Company, whether as an officer, director, proprietor, employer, employee, partner independent contractor, investor, consultant, advisor, agent, or otherwise; provided that this provision shall not apply to the Executive's ownership of the capital stock, solely as an investment, of securities of any issuer that is registered under Section 12(b) or 12(g) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and that are listed or admitted for trading on any United States national securities exchange or that are quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations System, or any similar system or automated dissemination of quotations of securities prices in common use, so long as the Executive does not control, acquire a controlling interest in or become a member of a group which exercises direct or indirect control or, more than three percent of any class of capital stock of such corporation;

Noncompetition. By and in consideration of the salary and benefits to be provided by the Company hereunder, including the severance arrangements set forth herein, and further in consideration of the Executive’s exposure to the proprietary information of the Company, the Executive agrees, unless the Executive requests in writing to the Board, and is thereafter authorized in writing to do so by the Board, that # during his employment under this Agreement, and (b)(i) for the one year period following the termination of employment prior to a Change in Control or # the two year period following the termination of employment following a Change in Control, the Executive shall not directly or indirectly, own, manage, operate, join, control or participate in the ownership, management, operation or control of, or be employed or otherwise connected in any manner with, including without limitation as a consultant, any business which at any relevant time during said period directly or indirectly competes with the Company or any of its affiliates in any country in which the Company does business. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Executive shall not be prohibited during the non-competition period described above from being a passive investor where he owns not more than five percent of the issued and outstanding capital stock of any publicly-held company. The Executive further agrees that during said period, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, solicit or induce, or attempt to solicit or induce, any employee of the Company to terminate employment with the Company or hire any employee of the Company.

In consideration for the consideration set forth in the Employment Agreement and the payment of severance benefits set forth in Section 7 of the Employment Agreement, Executive further covenants and agrees that during the Term of Employment and during the one (1) year period immediately following the Termination Date (the "Non-Competitive Period"), Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, as owner, partner, joint venturer, stockholder, employee, broker, agent, principal, trustee, corporate officer, director, licensor, or in any capacity whatsoever, engage in, become financially interested in, be employed by, render any consultation or business advice with respect to, accept any competitive business on behalf of, or have any connection with any business which is competitive with products or services of the Company or any subsidiaries and affiliates, in any geographic area in which the Executive provided services or had a material presence or influence on behalf of the Company, whether in the United States, Canada, Europe or elsewhere during the two years prior to Executive’s separation from the Company; provided, however, that Executive may own any securities of any corporation which is engaged in such business and is publicly owned and traded but in an amount not to exceed at any one time one percent (1%) of any class of stock or securities of such corporation. In addition, Executive shall not, during the Non-Competitive Period, directly or indirectly: # request or cause any suppliers or customers with whom the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates has a business relationship to cancel or terminate any such business relationship with the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or otherwise compromise the Company’s good will; or # solicit, hire, interfere with or entice from the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates any employee (or former employee who has been separated from service for less than 12 months) of the Company or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates.

3.1During the period of the Executive’s employment with the Company and for a period of one year following the Separation Date (other than upon a termination without Cause, in which case the obligations under this [Section 3.1] cease upon separation from employment, absent a mutual agreement of the parties in a new agreement with respect to such period), the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, own, manage, control, operate, be employed by, participate in or be connected with the ownership, management, operation or control of any business which competes with the Company or any of its affiliated companies (each, a “Competitor”) in the Restricted Area, if the Executive would be performing job duties or services for the Competitor that are of a similar type that the Executive performed for the Company at any time during the last two years of the Executive’s employment. The Executive acknowledges that undertaking any leadership role for a Competitor would constitute performing job duties or services of a similar type that he performed for the Company. Further, for purposes of this [Section 3.1], “Restricted Area” shall mean the geographic areas in which the Executive, during the last two years of employment, provided services or had a material presence or influence (which, given his position as Chief Operating Officer, would be any area in which the Company was conducting business). The foregoing shall not apply to passive ownership of less than 5% of the outstanding stock of a publicly held corporation, which ownership is disclosed to the CEO. The restricted period will be extended to two years following cessation of employment if the Executive breaches his fiduciary duty to the Company or unlawfully takes, physically or electronically, property belonging to the Company, in which case the duration may not exceed 2 years from the date of cessation of employment. Before agreeing to this [Section 3.1] the Executive has the right to and is encouraged to consult with counsel. The Executive agrees that he is receiving mutually-agreed consideration appropriate to support these restrictions pursuant to the additional compensation for which he is eligible pursuant to this Agreement in [Sections 2.3] and/or 4.5. The Executive further acknowledges that the agreement not to compete with the Company contemplated by this [Section 3.1] (the “non-competition agreement”) is supported by fair and reasonable consideration independent from the Employee’s continued employment, and that, notwithstanding the immediate effectiveness otherwise of this Agreement upon the Parties execution of the Agreement, the non-competition agreement shall not take effect until the later of # eleventh (11th) business day following the date on which the Company provided this Agreement to the Executive for review and execution; and # the Executive’s execution of this Agreement.

During Executive's employment with Company and for a period of 2 years following termination of employment for any reason or the Severance Period (the "Non-Competition Period"), Executive shall not either directly or indirectly, on Executive's own or another's behalf, engage in or assist others in any of the following activities (except on behalf of Company):

Non-competition with the Company. The parties acknowledge: # that Executive’s services under this Agreement require special expertise and talent in the provision of Competitive Services and that Executive will have substantial contacts with customers, suppliers, advertisers and vendors of the Company; # that pursuant to this Agreement, Executive will be placed in a position of trust and responsibility and he will have access to a substantial amount of Confidential Information and Trade Secrets and that the Company is placing him in such position and giving him access to such information in reliance upon his agreement not to compete with the Company during the Restricted Period; # that due to his management duties, Executive will be the repository of a substantial portion of the goodwill of the Company and would have an unfair advantage in competing with the Company; # that due to Executive’s special experience and talent, the loss of Executive’s services to the Company under this Agreement cannot reasonably or adequately be compensated solely by damages in an action at law; # that Executive is capable of competing with the Company; and # that Executive is capable of obtaining gainful, lucrative and desirable employment that does not violate the restrictions contained in this Agreement. In consideration of the compensation and benefits being paid and to be paid by the Company to Executive hereunder, Executive hereby agrees that, during the Restricted Period, Executive will not, without prior written consent of the Company, directly or indirectly seek or obtain a Competitive Position in the Restricted Territory; provided, however, that # the provisions of this Agreement shall not be deemed to prohibit the ownership by Executive of any securities of the Company or its affiliated entities or not more than five percent (5%) of any class of securities of any corporation having a class of securities registered pursuant to the Exchange Act; # for purposes of this § 13(c)(iv) only, the Restricted Period shall be reduced to eighteen (18) months if Executive’s employment is terminated by Company or Executive pursuant to § 8(a) (Prior to a Change in Control: Resignation by Executive for Good Reason; Termination by the Company Other Than for Cause, Death or Disability); and # this § 13(c)(iv) shall lapse and terminate at the end of the Employment Period if the Company gives notice to Executive pursuant to § 3 that this Agreement will not be extended.

Noncompetition. Except as may be prohibited by applicable law, for a period of twelve (12) months after the Termination Date, Executive shall not # directly or indirectly act alone or in concert or conspire with any person in order to engage in or prepare to engage in or to have a financial or other interest in any business or any activity which Executive knows (or reasonably should have known) to be directly competitive with the business of the Company or its subsidiaries as then being carried on; or # serve as an employee, agent, partner, shareholder, director or consultant for, or in any other capacity participate, engage, or have a financial or other interest in any business or any activity which Executive knows (or reasonably should have known) to be directly competitive with the business of the Company or its subsidiaries as then being carried on (provided, however, that notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Executive may own up to five percent (5%) of the outstanding shares of the capital stock of a company whose securities are registered under Section 12 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934).

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