8.Restrictive Covenants.
(a)Confidential Information. Participant acknowledges and agrees that the customers, business connections, customer lists, procedures, operations, techniques, financial statements, clients, potential clients or customers, employees, suppliers, programs, strategies, analyses, profit margins, sales, methods of operation, plans, products, technologies, materials, trade secrets, prospects and other aspects of and information, proprietary or otherwise, about the business of the Company or its Affiliates (the “Confidential Information”) are established at great expense and protected as confidential information and provide the Company with a substantial competitive advantage in conducting its business. Participant further acknowledges and agrees that by virtue of his employment with the Company or its Affiliates, he has had access to and will have access to, and has been entrusted with and will be entrusted with Confidential Information, and that the Company or its Affiliates would suffer great loss and injury if Participant would disclose this information or use it in a manner not specifically authorized by the Company. Therefore, Participant agrees that during his employment relationship with the Company and/or its Affiliates and thereafter, he will not, directly or indirectly, either individually or as an employee, agent, partner, shareholder, owner trustee, beneficiary, co-venturer distributor, consultant or in any other capacity, use or disclose or cause to be used or disclosed any Confidential Information, unless and to the extent that any such information (a) becomes generally known to and available for use by the public other than as a result of Participant’s acts or omissions, (b) was publicly known at the time of disclosure to Participant, or (c) is required to be disclosed to satisfy applicable laws and/or lawfully issued orders including, without limitation, legal demands, requirements, subpoenas, decrees, or orders by a competent court of law or governmental or administrative body. Participant shall deliver to the Company or its Affiliates at the termination of his employment, or at any other time the Company or its Affiliates may request, all memoranda, notes, plans, records, reports, computer tapes, printouts and software and other documents and data (and copies thereof) relating to the Confidential Information, Work Product (as defined below) or the business of the Company or its Affiliates which he may then possess or have under his control. Participant acknowledges and agrees that all inventions, innovations, improvements, developments, methods, designs, analyses, drawings, reports and all similar or related information (whether or not patentable) that relate to the Company’s actual or anticipated business research and development or existing or future products or services and that are conceived, developed or made by Participant while employed by the Company (“Work Product”) belong to the Company or its Affiliates.
(b)Non-Solicitation;Non-Interference.
(i) Participant agrees that during his employment relationship with the Company or its Affiliates and for eighteen (18) months following the termination date, Participant shall not, except in the furtherance of their duties hereunder, directly or indirectly, individually or on behalf of any other person, firm, corporation or other entity unaffiliated with the Company or its Affiliates, solicit, aid, persuade or induce any customer or prospective customer of the Company or any its Affiliates to divert their business or services away from the Company or its Affiliates, terminate or change their relationship with the Company or its Affiliates in a manner that is adverse to the Company or its Affiliates, or assist or aid another party in identifying or soliciting any such customer to purchase goods or services then sold by the Company or its Affiliates.
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