Employee will not, other than on behalf of the Company, directly or indirectly, as a proprietor,
partner, employee, agent or otherwise:
(i)Solicit, directly or indirectly, or cause or permit others to solicit, directly or indirectly,
any person (i) formerly employed by the Company or its Subsidiaries or affiliated
companies during the six (6) month period immediately preceding or following the
termination of Employee’s employment (“Former Employee”) or (ii) employed by the
Company or its Subsidiaries or affiliated companies (“Current Employee”). The term
“solicit” includes, but is not limited to, the following (regardless of whether done
directly or indirectly): (a) requesting that a Former or Current Employee change
employment; (b) informing a Former or Current Employee that an opening exists
elsewhere; (c) assisting a Former or Current Employee in finding employment
elsewhere; (d) inquiring if a Former or Current Employee “knows of anyone who
might be interested” in a position elsewhere; (e) inquiring if a Former or Current
Employee might have an interest in employment elsewhere; (f) informing others of
the name or status of, or other information about, a Former or Current Employee; or
(g) any other similar conduct, the intended or actual effect of which is that a Former
Employee affiliates with another employer or a Current Employee leaves the
employment of the Company or its Subsidiaries or affiliated companies.
(ii)Anywhere in the world, directly or indirectly, either (a) solicit, encourage, or induce to
terminate or reduce its business with the Company or its Subsidiaries or affiliated
companies, or (b) provide any products and/or services that compete directly with
products and/or services provided, marketed, and/or under development by the
Company or its Subsidiaries or affiliated companies at any time during the two (2)
years preceding the termination of Employee’s employment, in both cases, to any
person or entity who paid or engaged the Company or its Subsidiaries or affiliated
companies for products and/or services, or who received the benefit of the
Company’s or its Subsidiaries’ or affiliated companies’ products and/or services, or
with whom Employee had any substantial dealings while Employee was employed by
the Company or its Subsidiaries or affiliated companies, during the two (2) years
preceding Employee’s termination of employment with the Company or their
employing Subsidiary or affiliated company.
(iii)Engage, directly or indirectly, either as a proprietor, stockholder, partner, director,
officer, member, employee, consultant, or otherwise, in any existing or future
business operating in North America or in any of the ten countries outside of North
America that produced the highest revenues for the Company in the year preceding
Employee’s termination of employment that offers, sells, or provides equipment,
products or services that compete with the Company’s equipment, products or
services (each, a “Competitive Business”). Nothing in this Section 5 shall prohibit
Employee and Employee’s affiliates from owning, as passive investors, in the aggregate
not more than five percent of equity securities of any Competitive Business.
(iv) Act in any capacity for or with any Competitive Business, or for or with any of their
agents, if in such capacity Employee would, because of the nature of his/her role with
such Competitive Business and Employee’s knowledge of Confidential Business
Information, inevitably use and/or disclose any Confidential Business Information in
his/her work for, or on behalf of, the Competitive Business or its agent.