Exhibit 10.4
EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT, dated as OF JULY 29, 2005, is between
EDENTIFY, INC., (the "Company") a Nevada corporation with an office located at
00 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxx, XX 00000, and XXXXXX XXXXXXX, an
individual with an address at 0 Xxxxxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, XX (the
"Executive"). In consideration of the mutual covenants and representations
herein contained and the mutual benefits derived herefrom, the parties,
intending to be legally bound, covenant and agree as follows:
1. PURPOSE. The Company is engaged in the business of providing
businesses with information-based and technology based services used in the
detection and prevention of identity fraud (collectively, the "Business"). The
Company currently employs the Executive, and wishes to continue to employ the
Executive, and the Executive has agreed to continue to be employed by the
Company, on the terms and conditions herein provided.
2. FULL-TIME EMPLOYMENT OF EXECUTIVE - DUTIES AND STATUS.
(a) The Company hereby engages the Executive as a full-time
executive to hold the offices of Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice
President for the period (the "Employment Period") specified in Section 5(a)
hereof, and the Executive accepts such employment, on the terms and conditions
set forth in this Agreement. Throughout the Employment Period, the Executive
shall faithfully exercise such authority and perform such executive duties as
are commensurate with the authority and duties of such officers of the Company
and such other reasonable duties as may otherwise be assigned to him from time
to time by the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board").
(b) Throughout the Employment Period, the Executive shall (i)
devote his full time and efforts to the business of the Company and will not
engage in consulting work or any trade or business for his own account or for or
on behalf of any other person, firm or corporation which competes, conflicts or
interferes with the performance of his duties hereunder in any way, and (ii)
accept such additional office or offices to which he may be appointed by the
Company, provided that the performance of the duties of such office or offices
shall generally be consistent with the scope of the duties provided for in
Section 2(a) hereof.
(c) Throughout the Employment Period, the Executive shall be
entitled to four weeks of vacation per year (provided that Executive shall take
no more than two consecutive weeks of vacation) and to leave of absence, and
leave for illness or temporary disability in accordance with the policies of the
Company in effect from time to time for its executive officers. Vacation leave
and leave of absence, if taken by the Executive, shall be taken at such times as
are reasonably acceptable to the Company. Any leave on account of illness or
temporary disability which is short of Total Disability (as defined in Section
5(d)(ii) hereof) shall not constitute a breach by the Executive of his
agreements hereunder even though leave on account of a Total Disability may be
deemed to result in a termination of the Employment Period under the applicable
provisions of this Agreement.
3. COMPENSATION AND GENERAL BENEFITS. As full compensation for his
services to the Company, the Executive shall, during the Employment Period, be
compensated as follows:
(a) The Company shall pay to the Executive a salary (the
"Salary") at the monthly rate of Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Dollars
(collectively, the "Salary"). The Salary shall be payable in periodic equal
installments not less frequently than monthly, less such sums as may be required
to be deducted or withheld under applicable provisions of federal, state and
local law. plus increases in the Salary, if any, as may be approved from time to
time by the Board. The Company shall pay such annual bonus to the Executive
based upon such performance and other standards as the Board shall from time to
time determine.
(b) Throughout the Employment Period, the Executive shall be
entitled to participate in such pension, 401K, profit sharing, stock, incentive,
bonus or incentive compensation, stock option, stock purchase, incentive, group
and individual disability, group and individual life, survivor income, sickness,
accident, dental, medical and health benefits and other plans of the Company or
additional benefit programs, plans or arrangements of the Company which may be
established by the Company for its executive officers, as and to the extent any
such benefit programs, plans and arrangements are or may from time to time be in
effect, as determined by the Company and pursuant to the terms hereof and as and
to the extent that the Company is eligible to participate in such plans under
the terms of such plans.
(c) The Company shall grant to the Executive on the date hereof
options to purchase Two Hundred Fifty Thousand shares of Common Stock at an
exercise price of Seventy Five Cents ($0.75) per share, Five Hundred Thousand
shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of Two Dollars ($2.00) per share,
and Five Hundred Thousand shares of Common Stock at an exercise price of Five
Dollars ($5.00) per share (collectively, the "Stock Options"). The following
terms and conditions shall apply to the Stock Options, provided however, that if
the Company adopts a stock option plan at any time within one hundred eighty
(180) days after the execution of this agreement, the terms of such stock option
agreement shall supercede and control with respect to any terms other than the
grant provisions set forth in paragraphs 3(c) and 3(c)(i) of this Agreement:
(i) The Stock Options shall expire seven years after the
date of grant, and shall vest per month at a rate of l/36th of the amount
granted commencing on July 1, 2005 and each month thereafter on the monthly
anniversary of the effective date of this Agreement and shall be fully vested on
the date which is thirty six (36) months following the execution of this
Agreement. Options with a lower exercise price shall vest prior to options with
a higher exercise price. Once vested, the
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Stock Options shall remain exercisable through the expiration date
notwithstanding any termination of the Executive's employment hereunder.
(ii) In the event of a Change in Control of the Company, all
unvested Stock Options shall immediately vest and remain exercisable through the
expiration of such Stock Option. A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to have
occurred:
(A) upon any "person" as such term is used in Sections
13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act (other than an owner of common stock of the
Company on the date hereof) becoming the beneficial owner (as defined in Rule
13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities
of the Company representing more than 50% of the combined voting power of the
Company's then outstanding securities;
(B) upon a merger or consolidation of the Company with
any other corporation or entity, other than a merger or consolidation which
would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately
prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by
being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) more than 50% of
the combined voting power of the voting securities of the Company or such
surviving entity outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation; and
(C) upon the stockholders of the Company approval of a
plan of complete liquidation of the Company or upon the consummation of the sale
or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company's
assets.
(d) The Company shall reimburse the Executive on a monthly basis
for all reasonable and customary business expenses incurred by him in the
performance of his duties hereunder, provided that the Executive shall submit
vouchers and other supporting data to substantiate the amount of said expenses
in accordance with Company policy from time to time in effect.
(e) If the Company purchases and maintains at any time during the
term of this Agreement one or more life insurance policies on the life of the
Executive, in addition to any policies purchased pursuant to Section 3(b)
hereof, in whatever amount or amounts which the Company deems desirable, the
Company shall be the beneficiary of said policy or policies and the Executive
shall cooperate with the Company and submit to such reasonable medical
examinations as are necessary to enable the Company to purchase and maintain in
full force and effect such additional insurance policy or policies.
(f) During the Employment Period, the Company shall provide the
Executive with a laptop computer, blackberry device and email service, and
cellular phone and service, and shall reimburse the Executive for expenses not
to exceed $500
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incurred in connection with his maintenance of an office in his home without the
written approval of the Chief Executive Officer.
4. NON-COMPETITION; CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION; PUBLIC STATEMENTS.
(a) Non-Competition. The Executive and the Company recognize that
due to the Executive's engagement hereunder and the relationship of the
Executive to the Company, the Executive will have access to and will acquire,
and may assist in developing, confidential and proprietary information relating
to the assets, business and operations of the Company and its affiliates,
including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, formulations, and
other information with respect to, among other things, the Company's present and
prospective techniques, systems, customers, accounts, sales and marketing
methods. The Executive acknowledges that such information has been and will
continue to be of central importance to the business of the Company and that
disclosure of it to, or its use by, others could cause substantial loss to the
Company. The Executive and the Company also recognize that an important part of
the Executive's duties may be to develop goodwill for the Company through his
personal contact with customers, agents and others having business relationships
with the Company, and that there is a danger that this goodwill, a proprietary
asset of the Company, may follow the Executive if and when his relationship with
the Company is terminated. The Executive accordingly agrees that, at all times
during the Employment Period and for two (2) years after expiration or earlier
termination of his employment, the Executive shall not, in any capacity
whatsoever, whether directly or indirectly, on its own behalf, or on behalf of
any other person, firm, partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
association or other entity (collectively, "Person"):
(i) own, manage, invest, participate, engage or become
employed in any activity which comprises the Business anywhere in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the States New Jersey, Delaware and such other
States in which the Company is conducting business as of the date of such
termination;
(ii) suggest to, induce or persuade any vendor or customer
of the Company to discontinue doing business, with, or to change the terms or
conditions of such relationship with the Company or otherwise disparage, disrupt
or disturb the relationship of the Company with such vendor or customer;
(iii) suggest to, induce or persuade any vendor or customer
of the Company to do business with any business that is competitive with the
Business;
(iv) suggest to, induce, solicit or persuade any employee or
consultant of the Company to leave the employ or engagement of the Company,
whether or not such inducement involves the Executive directly or indirectly
hiring or engaging or attempting to hire or engage such employee or consultant
of the Company at the time of such solicitation, whether on its own behalf or on
behalf of any other Person, whether or not the Executive has a direct or
indirect remunerative or other interest, as a proprietor,
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partner, coventurer, creditor, stockholder, director, officer, employee, agent,
representative or otherwise in such Person;
(v) participate in planning for and will not accept any
employment in or associate with any Person which then employs more than two
former employees of the Company who left the Company within the twelve months
next preceding his termination of employment with the Company; and
(vi) without limiting the term of his general obligation to
honor the Confidential information (as defined below) so long as it remains
protectable, the Executive specifically agrees that he will not plan for, accept
employment from any Person, nor directly or indirectly engage in, any business
wherein the loyal and diligent performance of the duties and responsibilities of
such new employment or business will inherently call upon him to use, to
disclose or to base judgments upon Confidential Information of the Company or to
utilize the goodwill of the Company in making sales for a competitor of the
Company. The foregoing restrictive period is based upon the Executive's and the
Company's good faith belief that:
(A) the Company's investment of time and money in the
Executive, and the nature of the Company's business (which is maintained and
increased through the personal contact of employees such as the Executive with
customers and vendors and potential customers and vendors of the Company) has
rendered and will continue to render the Executive a unique asset to the
Company;
(B) the Company would be placed at a competitive
disadvantage for such period, due to the Executive's knowledge of Confidential
Information and other matters arising out of his employment with the Company;
and
(C) the time required to rebuild the contacts and
patronage that the Executive will develop for the Company and to provide the
necessary training, exposure and education to his replacement would, for such a
period, place the Company at a competitive disadvantage.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, ownership of 2% or less of the stock or other
securities of a corporation, the stock of which is listed and/or traded on a
public securities exchange or the equivalent, including The Nasdaq Stock Market,
shall not constitute a breach of this Section 4(a).
(b) Confidential Information.
(i) At all times during the Employment Period and at all
times following termination thereof, the Executive shall keep confidential and
not disclose, directly or indirectly, and shall not use for the benefit of
himself or any other Person in connection with and furtherance of the Business
and the affairs of the Company, any Confidential Information relating to any
aspect of the business of the Company which is now known or which may become
known to him. For purposes of
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this Agreement. "Confidential Information" includes any trade secrets or
confidential or intellectual property or proprietary information whether in
written, oral or other form which is unique, confidential or proprietary to the
Company, its affiliates, customers or other persons who disclose such
information to the Company in confidence.
(ii) The Company's failure to xxxx any Confidential
information as confidential, proprietary or otherwise shall not affect its
status as Confidential Information hereunder.
(iii) The Executive acknowledges that all Confidential
Information is the property of the Company, its affiliates, customers or other
persons who disclose such information to the Company in confidence, and upon
expiration of the Employment Period or earlier termination of this Agreement or
earlier at the request of the Company, the Executive shall deliver to the
Company all records, notes, reference items, sketches, drawings, memoranda,
records, and other documents or materials, and all copies thereof (including but
not limited to such items stored by computer memory or other media) which relate
to or in any way incorporate the Confidential information which are in the
Executive's possession or under his control.
(v) The Executive agrees that should third parties request
to submit Confidential Information to them pursuant to subpoena, summons, search
warrant or governmental order, the Executive will notify the Company promptly
upon receipt of such request, and thereafter promptly deliver written notice of
the request to the Company. If the Company objects to the release of the
Confidential Information, the Executive will permit counsel chosen by the
Company to represent the Executive in order to resist release of the
Confidential information. The Company will pay the Executive for any expenses
incurred by him in connection with resisting the release of the Confidential
Information.
(c) Ownership of Developed Information.
(i) The Executive covenants and agrees that all right, title
and interest in any Developed Information, as defined below, shall be and remain
the exclusive property of the Company. The Executive agrees to make prompt and
complete disclosure from time to time to the Company of all Developed
Information. The Executive agrees to immediately disclose to the Company all
Developed Information, and to assign to the Company any right, title and
interest which he may have in the Developed information. The Executive agrees to
execute any instruments and to do all things reasonably requested by the
Company, both during and after the Employment Period, to vest the Company with
all ownership rights in the Developed Information. If any Developed Information
can be protected by federal copyright registration, patent registration or
trademark registration shall be owned solely, completely and exclusively by the
Company, and any rights the Executive may have in any such Developed Information
shall be deemed to be irrevocably assigned and transferred completely and
exclusively to the Company by the Executive.
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(ii) For purposes OF this Agreement, "Developed Information"
shall mean all trade secrets, confidential or other proprietary information
conceived, developed, designed, devised or otherwise created, modified or
improved by the Executive or with respect to which he receives or receives
access to, in whole or in part, in connection with the performance of his
services for the Company, its customers or other persons who disclose such
information to the Company in confidence hereunder during the Employment Period
or resulting from the Executive's use of or access to the Company's facilities
or resources, including its Confidential Information. The "Developed
Information" shall also include, without limitation, the following materials and
information, whether or not reduced to writing, whether now or hereafter
existing, whether or not patentable or protectable by copyright or trademark:
(A) Marketing techniques and arrangements, purchasing
information, pricing policies, quoting procedures, information processes,
financial information, customer and prospect names and requirements, employee,
customer, supplier and distributor data and other materials or information
relating to the Business and/or the manner in which the Company does business;
(B) Discoveries, concepts, and ideas, including without
limitation, processes, formulas, techniques, know how, designs, drawings, and
specifications relating to the Business and/or the manner in which the Company
does business;
(C) Formulations for any products of the Company,
including, but not limited to, software, databases, technology infrastructures
and similar information;
(D) Any other materials or information related to the
business or activities of the Company which are not generally known to others
engaged in similar businesses or activities; and
(E) All ideas which are derived from or related to the
Executive's access to or knowledge of any of the materials or information
described in this Section 3(b)(ii).
(d) Acknowledgment. The Executive acknowledges that he has
carefully read and reviewed the restrictions set forth in Sections 4(a), (b) and
(c) hereof, and having done so he agrees that those restrictions, including but
not limited to the time period and geographical areas of restriction, are fair
and reasonable and are reasonably required for the protection of the legitimate
business interests of the Company.
(e) Invalidity, Etc. If any covenant, provision, or agreement
contained in any part of Section 4(a), (b) or (c) hereof is found by a court
having jurisdiction to be unreasonable in duration, geographic scope or
character of restrictions, the covenant, provision or agreement shall not be
rendered unenforceable thereby, but rather the duration, geographical scope or
character of restrictions of such covenant,
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provision or agreement shall be deemed reduced or modified with retroactive
effect to render such covenant or agreement reasonable and such covenant or
agreement shall be enforced as modified. If the court having jurisdiction will
not review the covenant, provision or agreement, the parties shall mutually
agree to a revision having an effect as close as permitted by law to the
provision declared unenforceable. The Executive agrees that if a court having
jurisdiction determines, despite the express intent of the Executive, that any
portion of the restrictive covenants contained in Section 4(a), (b) or (c)
hereof are not enforceable, the remaining provisions shall be valid and
enforceable.
(f) Equitable Relief. The Executive recognizes and acknowledges
that if he breaches the provisions of Section 4(a), (b) or (c) hereof, damages
to the Company may be difficult if not impossible to ascertain, and because of
the immediate and irreparable damage and loss that may be caused to the Company
for which it would have no adequate remedy, it is therefore agreed that the
Company, in addition to and without limiting any other remedy or right it may
have, shall be entitled to have an injunction or other equitable relief in any
court of competent jurisdiction, enjoining any such breach, and the Executive
hereby waives any and all defenses he may have on the grounds of lack of
jurisdiction or competence of a court to grant such an injunction or other
equitable relief. The existence of this right shall not preclude the
applicability or exercise of any other rights and remedies at law or in equity
which the Company may have.
(g) Accounting for Profits. The Executive covenants and agrees
that if he violates any covenants or agreements under this Agreement, the
Company shall be entitled to an accounting and repayment of all profits,
compensations, royalties, commissions, remuneration or benefits which directly
or indirectly shall have been realized or may be realized relating to, growing
out of or in connection with any such violations; such remedy shall be in
addition to and not in limitation of any injunctive relief or other rights or
remedies to which the Company is or may be entitled at law or in equity or
otherwise under this Agreement.
(h) Public Statements. The Executive and the Company recognize
that, due to the relationship of the Executive and the Company and such
relationship's susceptibility to public comment which may be injurious to the
Executive or the Company, or both, it is necessary for the protection of both
parties that neither party make any disparaging public statements with respect
to each other concerning the terms of this Agreement and the arrangements made
pursuant hereto. The Executive and the Company accordingly agree that neither
the Executive nor the Company will make any disparaging public statements with
respect to each other or concerning the terms of this Agreement and the
arrangements made pursuant hereto at any time following the termination of this
Agreement without the prior written approval of the other party.
5. EMPLOYMENT PERIOD.
(a) Duration. The Employment Period shall commence on the date of
this Agreement and shall continue until the earlier of (i) the close of business
on the day immediately
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preceding the three (3) year anniversary of this Agreement {the "Expiration
Date"), or (ii) termination of this Agreement by the Company with "cause" (as
defined in Section 5(d)(i) hereof), or (iii) termination of this Agreement by
the Company for any reason other than cause, or (iv) the death or Total
Disability of the Executive.
(b) Payments Upon Termination.
(i) If the Executive's employment is terminated by the
Company for any reason other than "cause" (as defined in Section 5(c)(i)
hereof), or other than by Executive for Good Reason (as defined in Section
5(c)(v) hereof), or due to the "total disability" (as defined in Section
5(c)(ii) hereof), or death of the Executive, at any time during the Employment
Period, the Company shall pay to, or provide for, as the case may be, the
Executive, at the times otherwise provided in this Agreement as if the Executive
had not been terminated:
(A) his Salary as accrued through the date of
termination and for six months thereafter, which Salary shall be payable, at the
Company's option, as a lump sum or in equal monthly installments during such
period in accordance with existing payroll policies; and
(B) to the extent applicable, the sickness and health
insurance programs to which he would have been entitled under this Agreement if
he had remained in the employ of the Company for the Severance Period; and
(C) such other benefits to which he is entitled under
applicable laws.
In addition, the Company shall, to the extent applicable,
pay to, or provide for, as the case may be, the employee benefits (including,
but not limited to, coverage under any disability, group life, and accident
insurance programs and split-dollar life insurance arrangements or programs) to
which he would have been entitled under this Agreement if he had remained in the
employ of the Company throughout such Severance Period.
The Executive shall use his best efforts to discharge his
legal obligation to mitigate the amount of payments provided for in this Section
5(b) by actively seeking employment, and the amount of any payment provided for
in this Section 5(b) shall be reduced by any compensation or remuneration earned
as the result of employment by another employer after the date of termination
and during the Severance Period.
(ii) If the Executive's employment is terminated by
Executive for Good Reason (as defined in Section 5(c)(v) hereof), the Company
shall pay to, or provide for, as the case may be, the Executive, at the times
otherwise provided in this Agreement as if the Executive had not been terminated
his Salary as accrued through the date of termination and for two (2) months
thereafter, which Salary shall be payable,
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at the Company's option, as a lump sum or in equal monthly installments during
such period in accordance with existing payroll policies;
(iii) If the Executive's employment is terminated (A) by the
Company for "cause"; (B) by the Executive without Good Reason, then the Company
shall have no further liability to the Executive, except for the Salary which
has accrued through the date of termination, which amounts shall be paid by the
Company within thirty (30) days of such termination.
(iv) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section
5(b), if the Executive violates any covenant, term or condition of this
Agreement the Company shall be entitled, in addition to any other remedies it
may have hereunder or at law or in equity, to offset the amount of any payment
otherwise due to the Executive pursuant to this Section 5(b) against any loss or
damage incurred by the Company as a result of the Executive's violation of said
covenant, term or condition.
(v) For purposes of this Agreement the period after
termination for which Executive is due compensation or benefits pursuant to
paragraph 5(b)(i)(A) or 5(b)(ii) shall be referred to as "Severance Period".
(c) Definitions. When used in this Agreement, the words "cause,"
"total disability," and "good reason" shall have the respective meanings set
forth below:
(i) The term "cause" means: (A) the Executive's failure to
perform his employment duties hereunder after reasonable notice to the Executive
by the Company specifying such failure and providing the Executive with a
reasonable opportunity to cure such failure given the context of the
circumstances, (B) the Executive's breach of the covenants or agreements
contained in Sections 4(a), (b) or (c) hereof, or of any other material
agreement or undertaking of the Executive, (C) the Executive's commission of a
felony or any crime involving moral turpitude, fraud or misrepresentation,
whether or not related to the business or property of the Company, (D) any act
of the Executive against the Company intended to enrich the Executive in
derogation of his duties to the Company, (E) any willful or purposeful act or
omission (or any act or omission taken in bad faith) of the Executive having the
effect of injuring the business or business relationships of the Company, or (F)
the Executive's breach of his duty of loyalty to the Company.
(ii) The term "total disability" ("Total Disability") means
total disability as defined in the Company's group and individual disability
plans, if any. If the Company does not have in existence such plans, then Total
Disability shall mean:
(iii) The inability to perform the duties required hereunder
for a continuous period of six (6) months during the Employment Period due to
"mental incompetence" or "physical disability" as hereinafter defined. The
Executive shall be considered to be mentally incompetent and/or physically
disabled: (A) if he is
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under a legal decree of incompetency (the date of such decree being deemed the
date on which such mental incompetence occurred for purposes of this Section
5(c)); or (B) because of a "Medical Determination of Mental and/or Physical
Disability." A Medical Determination of Mental and/or Physical Disability shall
mean the written determination by: (1) the physician regularly attending the
Executive, and (2) a physician selected by the Company, that because of a
medically determinable mental and/or physical disability the Executive is unable
to perform each of the material duties of the Executive, and such mental and/or
physical disability is determined or reasonably expected to last twelve (12)
months or longer after the date of determination, based on medically available
information. If the two physicians do not agree, they shall jointly choose a
third consulting physician and the written opinion of the majority of these
three (3) physicians shall be conclusive as to such mental and/or physical
disability and shall be binding on the parties. The date of any written opinion
which is conclusive as to the mental and/or physical disability shall be deemed
the date on which such mental and/or physical disability commenced for purposes
of this Section 5(c), if the written opinion concludes that the Executive is
mentally and/or physically disabled. In conjunction with determining mental
and/or physical disability for purposes of this Agreement, the Executive
consents to any such examinations which are relevant to a determination of
whether he is mentally and/or physically disabled, and which is required by any
two (2) of the aforesaid physicians, and to furnish such medical information as
may be reasonably requested, and to waive any applicable physician patient
privilege that may arise because of such examination. All physicians selected
hereunder shall be Board-certified in the specialty most closely related to the
nature of the mental and/or physical disability alleged to exist.
(iv) For purposes of determining whether the Executive is
mentally incompetent or physically disabled for the continuous six (6) month
period specified in this Section 5(c), such disability shall be deemed to
continue from the date of any legal decree of incompetency, or written opinion
which is conclusive as to the mental and/or physical disability, through the
date the legal decree expires or is otherwise revoked or removed, or the date on
which the mental and/or physical disability has ceased, as the case may be, as
set forth in a written opinion prepared by the physicians described in this
Section 5(c) pursuant to the procedures provided herein.
(v) The term "Good Reason" means (A) a material diminution
of the Executive's titles, duties, or responsibilities not agreed to by the
Executive; (B) the Executive shall be required to report to someone other than
the Chief Executive Officer or the Board of Directors of the Company; or (C) a
material breach of this Agreement by the Company.
6. NOTICES. Any notices, requests, demands and other communications
provided for by this Agreement shall be sufficient if in writing and if sent by
registered or certified mail to the Executive at the last address he has filed
in writing with the Company.
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7. BINDING AGREEMENT; ASSIGNMENT. This Agreement shall be effective as
of the date hereof and shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of, the
parties and their respective heirs, successors, assigns, and personal
representatives, as the case may be. The Executive may not assign any rights or
duties under this Agreement. As used herein, the successors of the Company shall
include, but not be limited to, any successor by way of merger, consolidation,
sale of all or substantially all of the assets, or similar reorganization or
change in control.
8. ENTIRE AGREEMENT. This Agreement constitutes the entire
understanding of the Executive and the Company with respect to the subject
matter hereof and supersede any and all prior understandings written or oral.
This Agreement may not be changed, modified or discharged orally, but only by an
instrument in writing signed by the parties.
9. ENFORCEABILITY. This Agreement has been duly authorized, executed
and delivered and constitutes the valid and binding obligations of the parties
hereto, enforceable in accordance with its terms. The undertakings herein shall
not be construed as any limitation upon the remedies Company might, in the
absence of this Agreement, have at law or in equity for any wrongs of the
Executive.
10. GOVERNING LAW. The validity and construction of this Agreement or
any of its provisions shall be determined under the internal laws of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, without giving effect to its conflicts of laws
provisions, and without regard to its place of execution or its place of
performance. The parties irrevocably consent and agree to the exclusive
jurisdiction of the applicable Federal and State courts located in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to service of process for it and on its behalf
by certified mail, for resolution of all matters involving this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby. Each party waives all rights to a trial by
jury in any suit, action or proceeding hereunder.
11. SEVERABILITY. Except as provided in Section 4(e) hereof, if any
one or more of the terms or provisions of this Agreement shall for any reason be
held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in whole or in part, or in any
respect or in the event that any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement
operated or would prospectively operate to invalidate this Agreement, then and
in either of those events, such provision or provisions only shall be deemed
null and void and shall not affect any other provision of this Agreement and the
remaining provisions of this Agreement shall remain operative and in full force
and effect and shall in no way be affected, prejudiced or disturbed thereby.
12. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. This Agreement may, to the maximum extent
permitted by applicable law, be amended by the parties, which amendment shall be
set forth in an instrument executed by all of the parties. Any term, provision
or condition of this Agreement (other than as prohibited by applicable law) may
be waived in writing at any time by the party which is entitled to the benefits
thereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this
Agreement as an instrument under seal on the date first above written.
COMPANY:
EDENTIFV, INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxxxx XxXxxxxx
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Title: CEO
EXECUTIVE:
/s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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