Governance Committee (other than the Chairperson) shall receive an additional annual retainer of $5,000 for such service.
| v. | Risk Committee. A Non-Employee Director serving as Chairperson of the Risk Committee shall receive an additional annual retainer of $10,000 for such service. A Non-Employee Director serving as a member of the Risk Committee (other than the Chairperson) shall receive an additional annual retainer of $5,000 for such service. |
| c. | Payment of Retainers. The annual retainers described in Sections 4a and 4b (collectively, the “Annual Retainers”) shall be earned on a quarterly basis based on a calendar quarter and shall be paid by the Company in arrears not later than the fifteenth day following the end of each calendar quarter. In the event a Non-Employee Director does not serve as a Non-Employee Director, or in the applicable positions described in Section 4b, for an entire calendar quarter, the retainer paid to such Non-Employee Director shall be prorated for the portion of such calendar quarter actually served as a Non-Employee Director, or in such position, as applicable. |
| d. | Method of Payment. Except as elected pursuant to Section 4e below, the Annual Retainers shall be payable to each Non-Employee Director in cash. |
| e. | Election to Receive Shares of Common Stock in Lieu of Cash. A Non-Employee Director may make a timely election to receive all of his or her cash payments for the Annual Retainers (“Cash Annual Retainers”) in the form of shares of Common Stock of the Company (“Common Stock”), in accordance with the following procedure and terms: |
(i) The Non-Employee Director shall deliver an election form substantially in the form attached as Annex B hereto (an “Election Form”) to the Company (attn: Chief Financial Officer) before the start of the fiscal quarter and during an open trading window period under the Company’s Insider Trading Policy;
(ii) Such election shall apply for such fiscal quarter and any subsequent fiscal quarters of such fiscal year and to any fiscal years thereafter and cannot be altered during the fiscal year during which the election was made. Elections may be altered only by delivering a new Election Form, nullifying or modifying any previous election, to the Company (attn: Chief Financial Officer) before the start of a fiscal quarter and during an open trading window period under the Company’s Insider Trading Policy and such modified election will take effect on the first day of the following fiscal year;
(iii)The number of shares of Common Stock to be issued in lieu of the Cash Annual Retainers shall be determined on an annual basis, on the last trading day of the fiscal year for which the Cash Annual Retainers would have otherwise been due, by dividing the dollar amount of the Cash Annual Retainers to be paid for such year (determined as described above, subject to adjustments for partial service during the year) by the closing price of the Common Stock on the last trading day of the fiscal year;
(iv) Shares shall be issued as soon as practicable, but no more than 30 days following each fiscal year end, without any further action of the Board or Compensation Committee of the Board once an Election Form is duly signed and delivered. For the avoidance of doubt, all shares of Common Stock issued in lieu of the Cash Annual Retainers are fully vested and unrestricted shares of Common Stock, issued pursuant to the Incentive Plan.
Each Non-Employee Directors shall be granted the equity award described below, unless waived by the Non-Employee Director in his or her sole discretion by delivering the Waiver Form to the Company (attn: Chief Financial Officer). Such award shall be granted under and be subject to