Start Date:
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The date your appointment is formally approved by the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Effective Date”) shall constitute your starting date. You will serve as member of the Board until the annual meeting for the year in which your term expires or until your successor has been elected and qualified, subject however, to your prior death, resignation, retirement, disqualification or removal from office.
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Term:
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Your initial term shall be three (3) years.
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Services:
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You shall render services as a member of the Board (hereinafter your “Duties”). During the term of this Agreement, you shall attend and participate in such number of meetings of the Board as regularly or specially called, but in any case no fewer than four (4) meetings per year. You may attend and participate in each such meeting, via teleconference, videoconference or in person. You shall consult with other members of the Board regularly and as necessary via telephone, electronic mail or other forms of correspondence. You shall also participate in approximately four (4) conference calls for operational purposes with the Company’s management in any year.
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Committees:
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You acknowledge and agree that, in order to meet SEC and NYSE rules, you will be required to serve on one or more of the Board’s Audit Committee, Compensation Committee, and/or Nominating and Governance Committee, and that such committee assignments will be agreed between you and the Company, and that you will be compensated for service on any committee as provided herein.
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Compensation:
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During your term as a member of the Board, in consideration of your services, you will receive the following: (i) upon execution of this Agreement, 50,000 fully paid and nonassessable shares (the “Shares”) of Company restricted common stock (the “Common Stock”) and an option to purchase up to 12,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price per share equal to $0.01 above the closing price on the date of issuance; (ii) on each anniversary of the Effective Date, options to purchase up to 12,000 shares of Common Stock at an exercise price per share equal to $0.01 above the closing price on the date of issuance; (iii) options to purchase up to 5,000 shares of Common Stock for your attendance at any Company Board meeting at an exercise price equal to $0.01 above the closing price on the date of issuance; (iv) a nominal fee of $1,500 (the “Nominal Fee”) for each Board Meeting you attend and (v) should you become chairman of any committee of the Board, $1,500 per committee meeting you attend (the “Additional Fee”).
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Sale Restrictions.
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You hereby agree that you will not, without the prior written consent of the Company, offer, pledge, sell, contract to sell, hypothecate, lend, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of the shares which you own or have a right to acquire as of the date hereof (collectively, the “Lockup Shares”) for a period of six (6) months following the date you receive the Lockup Shares (the “Lockup Period”). Following the expiration of the Lockup Period, you shall have the right, in the aggregate, to sell, dispose of or otherwise transfer the Lockup Shares without restriction, up to five percent (5%) of the total daily trading volume of the Company’s common stock.
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Ownership. Until such time as you have sold the shares in question, you shall retain all rights of ownership in the Lockup Shares, including, without limitation, voting rights and the right to receive any dividends that may be declared in respect thereof.
The Company is hereby authorized to disclose the existence of this Agreement to its transfer agent and such transfer agent shall only release shares in accordance with the limitations contained herein. The Company and its transfer agent are hereby authorized to decline to make any transfer of the Lockup Shares if such transfer would constitute a violation or breach of this Agreement.
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Expenses:
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The Company agrees to reimburse all of your travel and other reasonable documented expenses relating to your attendance at meetings of the Board. In addition, the Company agrees to reimburse you for reasonable expenses that you incur in connection with the performance of your duties as a director of the Company.
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Indemnification:
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You will receive indemnification as a director of the Company to the maximum extent extended to directors of the Company generally, as set forth in the Company’s Certificate of Incorporation and bylaws.
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D&O Insurance:
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During your term as a member of the Board, the Company shall include you as an insured under an officers and directors insurance policy, with current coverage of five million dollars ($5,000,000) for all losses in the aggregate, including defense costs.
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Service For Others:
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You will be free to represent or perform services for other persons during the term of this Agreement. However, you agree that you do not presently perform and do not intend to perform, during the term of Agreement, similar Duties, consulting or other services for companies whose businesses whose businesses are or would be, in any way, competitive with the Company (except for companies previously disclosed by you to the Company in writing). Should you propose to perform similar Duties, consulting or other services for any such company, you agree to notify the Company in writing in advance (specifying the name of the organization for whom you propose to perform such services) and to provide information to the Company sufficient to allow it to determine if the performance of such services would conflict with areas of interest to the Company.
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No Assignment:
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Because of the personal nature of the services to be rendered by you, this Agreement may not be assigned by you without the prior written consent of the Company.
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Confidential
Information:
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In consideration of your access to the premises of the Company and/or you access to certain Confidential Information of the Company, in connection with your business relationship with the Company, you hereby represent and agree as follows:
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Termination and
Resignation: |
Your membership on the Company’s Board may be terminated for any or no reason at a meeting called for the purpose of the election of directors by a vote of the stockholders holding at least a majority of the shares of the Company’s issued and outstanding shares entitled to vote. Your membership on a Board committee may be terminated for any or no reason at any meeting of the Board by or by written consent of, a majority of the Board at any time. You may also terminate your membership on the Board or on a committee for any or no reason by delivering your written notice of resignation to the Company (“Resignation”), and such Resignation shall be effective upon the time specified therein or, if no time is specified, upon receipt of the notice of resignation by the Company. Upon the effective date of the termination or Resignation, your right to compensation hereunder will terminate subject to the Company's obligations to pay you any cash compensation (or equivalent value in Company Common Stock) that you have already earned and to reimburse you for approved expenses already incurred in connection with your performance of your Duties as of the effective date of such termination or Resignation.
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Governing Law:
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All questions with respect to the construction and/or enforcement of this Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the parties hereunder, shall be determined in accordance with the law of the State of Nevada applicable to agreements made and to be performed entirely in the State of Nevada.
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Entire Agreement;
Amendment;
Waiver;
Counterparts: |
This Agreement expresses the entire understanding with respect to the subject matter hereof and supersedes and terminates any prior oral or written agreements with respect to the subject matter hereof. Any term of this agreement may be amended and observance of any term of this agreement may be waived only with the written consent of the parties hereto. Waiver of any term or condition of this agreement by any party shall not be construed as a waiver of any subsequent breach or failure of the same term or condition or waiver of any other term or condition of this agreement. The failure of any party at any time to require performance by any other party of any provision of this Agreement shall not affect the right of any such party to require future performance of such provision or any other provision of agreement. This Agreement may be executed in separate counterparts each of which will be an original and all of which taken together will constitute one and the same agreement, and may be executed using facsimiles of signatures, and a facsimile of a signature shall be deemed to be the same, and equally enforceable, as an original of such signature.
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By:
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/s/ Michael D. Farkas | |
Michael D. Farkas
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Chief Executive Officer
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By:
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/s/ Eckardt C. Beck | |
Name: | Eckardt C. Beck | |
Date: | April 3, 2013 |