| (i) The Employee, acting alone or with others, directly or indirectly, shall not, during the Non-competition Period, either as employee, employer, consultant, advisor, or director, or as an owner, investor, partner, or shareholder unless the Employee’s interest is insubstantial, engage in or become associated with a “Competitive Activity.” For this purpose, (A) the “Non-competition Period” means the period prior to a Change in Control and during Employee’s employment and within two years (or such other period as the Committee may specify) following termination of such employment with the Company and any subsidiary or for such shorter period following such termination as may be provided by applicable law; and (B) the term “Competitive Activity” means any business or other endeavor that engages in a line of business in any geographic location that is substantially the same as either (1) any line of operating business which the Company or a subsidiary engages in, conducts, or, to the knowledge of the Executive, has definitive plans to engage in or conduct, or (2) any operating business that has been engaged in or conducted by the Company or a subsidiary and as to which, to the knowledge of the Employee, the Company or subsidiary has covenanted in writing, in connection with the disposition of such business, not to compete therewith. The Committee shall, in the reasonable exercise of its discretion, determine which lines of business the Company and its subsidiaries conduct on any particular date and which third parties may reasonably be deemed to be in competition with the Company and its subsidiaries. For purposes of this Section 7(a) (including clause (ii) below), the Employee’s interest as a shareholder is insubstantial if it represents beneficial ownership of less than five percent of the outstanding class of stock, and the Employee’s interest as an owner, investor, or partner is insubstantial if it represents ownership, as determined by the Committee in its discretion, of less than five percent of the outstanding equity of the entity. |