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• Non-Solicitation of Employees and Consultants During the Period of Employment and for a period of twenty-four (24) months after the Severance Date, the Executive will not directly or indirectly through any other Person (i) induce or attempt to induce any employee or independent contractor of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company to leave the employ or service, as applicable, of the Company or such Affiliate, or in any way interfere with the relationship between the Company or any such Affiliate, on the one hand, and any employee or independent contractor thereof, on the other hand, or (ii) hire any person who was an employee of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company until twelve (12) months after such individual’s employment relationship with the Company or such Affiliate has been terminated.

• Employees and Consultants Pubco does not have any employees or consultants, except as disclosed in the Pubco SEC Documents.

• Non-Recruitment of Employees During the Restricted Period, Executive will not, directly or indirectly, solicit, recruit or induce any Employee to (i) terminate his or her employment relationship with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) work for any other person or entity engaged in the Business.

• Treatment of Company Stock Options Immediately after the Effective Time, each outstanding option to purchase shares of Company Common Stock (a “Company Stock Option”) granted under the Company 2015 Omnibus Incentive Plan and the 2007 Stock Incentive Plan for Key Employees of the Company and its affiliates (collectively, the “Company Stock Plans”), whether vested or unvested, shall, automatically and without any required action on the part of the holder thereof, cease to represent an option to purchase shares of Company Common Stock and shall be converted into an option to purchase a number of shares of Parent Common Stock (such option, a “Converted Stock Option”) equal to the product (with the result rounded down to the nearest whole number) of (i) the number of shares of Company Common Stock subject to such Company Stock Option immediately prior to the Effective Time and (ii) the Exchange Ratio, at an exercise price per share (rounded up to the nearest whole cent) equal to (A) the exercise price per share of Company Common Stock of such Company Stock Option immediately prior to the Effective Time divided by (B) the Exchange Ratio; provided, however, that the exercise price and the number of shares of Parent Common Stock purchasable pursuant to the Converted Stock Option shall be determined in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A of the Code. Except as specifically provided above, following the Effective Time, each Converted Stock Option shall continue to be governed by the same terms and conditions (including vesting (and acceleration thereof upon the Closing, to the extent provided therein), forfeiture and exercisability terms) as were applicable to the corresponding Company Stock Option at the Effective Time; provided, however, that (1) to the extent that any Company Stock Option that is subject to vesting solely upon achievement of a target price per share of Company Common Stock (such price, the “Target Price” and such Company Stock Option, a “Target Price Option”)) would, by its terms, expire as of the Effective Time, such Target Price Option shall be amended such that it will not expire upon the Effective Time and shall instead become a Converted Stock Option, and remain eligible to vest upon satisfaction of the applicable Target Price, as adjusted to equal the initial Target Price divided by the Exchange Ratio (the “Adjusted Target Price”), (2) all Converted Stock Options held by a Company Employee (other than any Converted Stock Option with an Adjusted Target Price) shall vest in their entirety to the extent such Company Employee undergoes a Covered Termination and (3) all Converted Stock Options with an Adjusted Target Price held by a Company Employee shall be cancelled for no consideration or payment to the extent such Company Employee undergoes any termination of employment (including a Covered Termination) and at the time of such termination, the Adjusted Target Price is not achieved. For purposes hereof, a “Covered Termination” means, with respect to a Company Employee, (A) an involuntary termination of such Company Employee’s employment initiated by the Company that would result in the payment of severance benefits under the applicable Company Benefit Plan under which such Company Employee is eligible for severance benefits or (B) such Company Employee resigns from employment as a result of a material diminution in (I) the duties or responsibilities of such Company Employee as of the date of this Agreement, or (II) the base salary or annual incentive compensation opportunity afforded to such Company Employee as of the date of this Agreement, in each case, to the extent that such termination or resignation occurs on or following the date of this Agreement and on or prior to the second (2nd) anniversary of the Closing Date; provided that, in the case of a Company Employee resigning under clause (B) above, (x) the Company Employee shall provide the Surviving Corporation with written notice specifying the circumstances alleged to constitute the applicable material diminution within sixty (60) days following the first (1st) occurrence of such circumstances, (y) the Surviving Corporation shall have thirty (30) days following receipt of such notice to cure such circumstances and (z) if the Surviving Corporation has not cured such circumstances within such thirty (30)-day period, the Company Employee shall terminate his or her employment not later than thirty (30) days after the end of such thirty (30) day period; provided further that any such resignation under clause (B) above shall constitute a Covered Termination with respect to a Company Employee who is not a Covered Company Employee solely if so determined by the Company CEO (subject to his continued employment with the Company, or, following the Closing, with Parent, through such date).

• Treatment of Company Equity Awards (a) Subject to Section 3.05(f), at the Effective Time, each Company Option that is outstanding and unexercised as of immediately prior to the Effective Time, whether vested or unvested, shall, without any further action on the part of any holder of a Company Option, be assumed by Acquiror. Each such Company Option so assumed by Acquiror hereunder (an “Adjusted Option”) shall continue to have, and be subject to, the same terms and conditions (including the term, exercisability and vesting schedule as were applicable to the corresponding Company Option immediately before the Effective Time, except that (i) Acquiror’s board of directors or a committee thereof shall succeed as to the authority and responsibility of the Company Board or any committee thereof with respect to any Adjusted Option; (ii) each Adjusted Option will be exercisable for that number of shares of Class A common stock of the Acquiror (“Acquiror Common Stock”) (rounded down to the nearest whole share) equal to the product of the number of shares of Common Stock to which the corresponding Company Option related immediately prior to the Effective Time and the Equity Award Exchange Ratio, and (iii) the per share exercise price for the shares of Acquiror Common Stock issuable upon exercise of such Adjusted Option will be equal to the quotient of the per share exercise price of the Company Option divided by the Equity Award Exchange Ratio (rounded up to the nearest whole cent). The date of grant of each Adjusted Option will be the date on which the corresponding Company Option was granted. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the adjustment described in this Section 3.05(a) shall be made on a grant-by-grant basis in a manner consistent with Section 409A of the Code and, with respect to each Company Option that is an incentive stock option (within the meaning of Section 422(b) of the Code), no adjustment will be made that would be a modification (within the meaning of Section 424(h) of the Code) to such Company Option.

• Employees and Contractors The number of employees or contractors used by Operator in conducting operations hereunder, their selection, and the hours of labor and the compensation for services performed shall be determined by Operator, and all such employees or contractors shall be the employees or contractors of Operator.

• Solicitation of Employees, Consultants and Other Parties I agree that during the term of my Relationship with the Company, and for a period of twenty-four months immediately following the termination of my Relationship with the Company for any reason, whether with or without cause, I shall not either directly or indirectly solicit, induce, recruit or encourage any of the Company’s employees or consultants to terminate their relationship with the Company, or attempt to solicit, induce, recruit, encourage or take away employees or consultants of the Company, either for myself or for any other person or entity. Further, during my Relationship with the Company and at any time following termination of my Relationship with the Company for any reason, with or without cause, I shall not use any information rising to the level of a trade secret of the Company: (i) to attempt to negatively influence any of the Company’s clients or customers from purchasing Company products or services; (ii) to solicit or influence or attempt to influence any client, customer or other person either directly or indirectly; or, (iii) to direct any of the Company’s clients or customers to purchase products and/or services – from any person, firm, corporation, institution or other entity in competition with the business of the Company.

• Employees and Independent Contractors Schedule 3.16 is a list of all of the employees of the Acquired Companies and (a) their titles or responsibilities; (b) their social security numbers; (c) their dates of hire; (d) their current salaries or wages and all bonuses, commissions and incentives paid at any time during the past twelve months; (e) their last compensation changes and the dates on which such changes were made; (f) any specific bonus, commission or incentive plans or agreements for or with them; and (g) any outstanding loans or advances made to them. Schedule 3.16 is a list of all sales representatives and independent subcontractors or contractors engaged by the Acquired Companies and (a) their payment arrangements (if not set forth in a Contract listed or described on Schedule 3.15); and (b) brief description of their jobs or projects currently in progress. Except as limited by any Contracts listed on Schedule 3.15 and except for any limitations of general application which may be imposed under applicable employment Laws, each of the Acquired Companies has the right to terminate the employment of each of its employees at will and to terminate the engagement of any of its independent contractors without payment to such employee or independent contractor other than for services rendered through termination and without incurring any penalty or liability other than liability for severance pay and benefits in accordance with such company's disclosed severance pay policy and benefits due terminated employees. Neither the Transactions, nor the termination of the employment of any employees of any of the Acquired Companies prior to or following the consummation of the Transactions could result in any of the Acquired Companies making or being required to make any "excess parachute payment" as that term is defined in Section 280G of the Code. To the knowledge of CTC, each of the Acquired Companies is in full compliance in all material respects with all Laws respecting employment practices. None of the Acquired Companies has ever been a party to or bound by any union, collective bargaining or similar Contract, nor is any such Contract currently in effect or being negotiated by or on behalf of any of the Acquired Companies. Since the respective incorporation or formation dates of each of the Acquired Companies, none of the Acquired Companies has experienced any labor problem that was or is material to it. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.16, each of the Acquired Companies' current and past employees has signed an employee or confidentiality agreement which contains certain restrictive covenants substantially in the form attached to Schedule 3.16. Except as set forth on Schedule 3.16, each of the Acquired Companies' current and past contractors or consultants has signed agreements with the Acquired Companies containing restrictions that protect the proprietary and confidential information of the Acquired Companies and vest in the Acquired Companies the full ownership of items developed by such contractor. Except as indicated on Schedule 3.16, since January 1, 2000, to the knowledge of CTC, no employee of any of the Acquired Companies having an annual salary of $50,000 or more has indicated an intention to terminate or has terminated his or her employment with such company. To the knowledge of CTC, the Transactions will not adversely affect relations with any material employee of the Acquired Companies.

• Nonsolicitation of Employees and Customers At all times while ------------------------------------------ the Executive is employed by the Company and for the two (2) year period immediately following the termination of the Executive's employment with the Company for any reason, the Executive shall not, directly or indirectly, for himself or for or on behalf of any other person, firm, corporation, partnership, association or other entity (a) employ or attempt to employ or solicit the termination of employment of or enter into any contractual arrangement with any employee or former employee of the Company, unless such employee or former employee has not been employed by the Company for a period in excess of six (6) months, and/or (b) call on or solicit any of the actual or targeted prospective customers or clients of the Company (or of its physician practices or laboratories) on behalf of any person or entity in connection with any business that competes with the Company's business, nor shall the Executive make known the names and/or addresses of such employees, customers or clients or any information relating in any manner to the Company's trade or business relationships with such employees, customers or clients, other than in connection with the performance of Executive's duties under this Agreement.

• Compensation of Consultant The Company hereby agrees to compensate Consultant $1,000 per month payable on the first business day of the month.