(b) Non-Solicitation of Customers, Prospects, or Suppliers. You shall not, directly or indirectly, in any manner, solicit or transact any business with any of the customers or customer prospects of the Company or any of its suppliers. For purposes of this Agreement, (x) business shall include any business that researches, develops, manufactures, markets, sells or distributes a product or service that competes with a product or service of the Company, (y) customers shall include then current customers to which the Company provided products or services during the 12 months before the Advisory Termination Date (the “One Year Lookback”) and customer prospects shall include customer prospects the Company solicited during the One Year Lookback and with which you had significant contact or about which you learned confidential information in the course of your employment, and (z) suppliers shall include then current suppliers and suppliers that provided services to or in connection with the Company during the One Year Lookback.
(c) Non-Solicitation of Employees. You shall not, directly or indirectly, in any manner, solicit, entice or attempt to persuade any employee of the Company to leave the Company for any reason or otherwise participate in or facilitate the hire, directly or through another entity, of any person who is then employed by the Company.
(d) Non-Solicitation of Consultants. You shall not, directly or indirectly, in any manner, solicit, entice or attempt to persuade any consultant of the Company to leave the Company in order to work for or otherwise engage with a Competing Business or otherwise participate in or facilitate the hire, directly or through another entity, of any person who is then engaged by the Company to engage with or otherwise participate in a Competing Business.
You agree that in the event you breach any of the restrictions under this Section 3, the remedies set forth in Section 12 of the Employment Agreement shall be available to the Company.
4. Return of Property. You acknowledge and agree you are required to return all Company property in your possession to the Company including, without limitation, Company-owned laptop, monitors, and docking station. Accordingly, by signing below, you acknowledge and agree you will comply with Section 8(f) of the Employment Agreement by returning to the Company on or before the Advisory Termination Date (or sooner if requested by the Company) all Company property, including, without limitation, all files, reports, documents, laptops or other materials containing or pertaining to Proprietary Information (as defined in the Employment Agreement) and to your work. After returning all of the foregoing, you commit to deleting and finally purging any duplicates of files or documents that may contain Company information from any non-Company computer or other device that remains your property after the Advisory Termination Date. In the event you discover that you continue to retain any such information or property, you shall return it to the Company immediately.
5. Non-Disparagement. Subject to Sections 8 and 10 of this Agreement, you agree to take no action or make any statements, written or oral, that are disparaging about or adverse to the business interests of the Company or its employees, directors, officers, agents, products, or services, and the Company agrees to instruct the members of the Board and the executive leadership team to take no action or make any statements, written or oral, that are disparaging about or adverse to your professional reputation. This non-disparagement obligation shall not apply to truthful testimony in a legal proceeding.
6. Communications. You will not communicate about your departure with anyone until after the Board has made a public written announcement about your departure (the “Company Announcement”); provided that you may communicate with your tax advisors, attorneys and spouse about your departure before the Company Announcement, provided further that you first advise such persons not to reveal information about your departure and each such person agrees. The Company agrees that, unless otherwise required by applicable law or regulation as determined by the Company in its reasonable good faith discretion, the Company shall give you an opportunity to review the Company Announcement prior to its publication. Once the Company has made the Company Announcement, you agree to limit any communications regarding your departure to statements consistent with the Company Announcement.