Proprietary Information and Inventions; Non-Competition and Non-Solicitation. Employee acknowledges that the successful development, marketing, sale and performance of the Company’s professional services and products require substantial time and expense. Such efforts generate for the Company valuable private, confidential, and proprietary information of the Company and its clients (whether current, former, or prospective), business partners, vendors, suppliers, and licensors (“Confidential Information”), including without limitation any and all (a) trade secrets, (b) financial information and pricing, (c) business strategies, plans, and proposals, (d) information relating to clients, including the terms of the Company’s agreements with clients, the discussions, negotiations, and proposals related to any such agreement, and the names of clients or prospective clients, (e) human resources information, including employee lists and personal employee information, and (f) technical information, including research and development, methodologies, training materials, software, documents, models, source code, designs, flowcharts and listings and any and all notes, analyses, compilations, studies, in each case in whatever form, whether oral, written, graphic, recorded, photographic, machine readable or otherwise, and whether or not marked or otherwise labeled “confidential” or specifically indicated as being confidential and/or proprietary in nature. The term “Confidential Information” also includes all notes, analyses, compilations, studies, interpretations or other materials to the extent such materials contain or are based on other Confidential Information. Employee acknowledges that during his employment, he will obtain knowledge of such Confidential Information. Employee agrees to undertake the following obligations, which he acknowledges to be reasonably designed to protect the Company’s legitimate business interests (including its Confidential Information and its relationships with customers and other third parties) without unnecessarily or unreasonably restricting Employee’s post-employment opportunities:
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Samples: Executive Employment Agreement (Eloyalty Corp), Executive Employment Agreement (Eloyalty Corp), Executive Employment Agreement (Eloyalty Corp)
