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EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
This Employment Agreement ("Agreement") is made and entered into
August
8, 2007 by and between IntegraMed America, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, having
its principal place of business at Two Manhattanville Road,
Purchase, New York
10577 ("Company"), and Kush K. Agarwal, a resident of the state
of Illinois,
residing at 109 Covington Court, Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
("Employee"), for the
purpose of setting forth the terms and conditions of Employee's
employment by
the Company and to protect the Company's interests, confidential
information,
trade secrets and other proprietary information and to obtain
assurance that
Employee will not compete with Company or solicit its customers
or its other
employees during the term of employment and for a reasonable
period of time
after termination of employment pursuant to this Agreement. This
Agreement
contains the complete agreement between the parties and
supersedes any prior
understandings, agreements or representations by or between the
parties, written
or oral, which may have related to the subject matter hereof in
any way.
Recitals:
WHEREAS, the Company desires to employ Employee as President and
Chief
Executive Officer of Company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Vein
Clinics of America,
Inc. ("VCA"), and Employee desires to accept and serve in that
capacity; and
WHEREAS, Employee understands that such employment is
expressly
conditioned on execution of this Agreement; and
WHEREAS, Company desires to employ Employee to render services
for
Company on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement,
and Employee
desires to be retained and employed by Company pursuant to such
terms and
conditions.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of Employee's employment by
Company
and the foregoing premises, the mutual covenants set forth below
and other good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which
are hereby
acknowledged, Company and Employee agree as follows:
Article I. Definitions
1.1 "Agreement" means this Employment Agreement, as from time to
time
amended.
1.2 "Base Salary" means the total annual cash compensation
payable on a
regular periodic basis, without regard to taxes and other items
withheld, and
excluding all types of incentive pay, all forms of stock or
equity based
compensation, fringe benefits, special pay or awards,
commissions and bonuses.
Base Salary shall include amounts contributed by Employee to a
qualified
retirement plan, nonqualified deferred compensation plan or
similar plan
sponsored by the Company, but it shall not include earnings on
those amounts.
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1.3 "Board" means the Board of Directors of Company.
1.4 "Cause" means:
(a) the gross neglect or willful failure or refusal of
Employee to perform Employee's duties hereunder (other than for
Good
Reason or as a result of Employee's Disability);
(b) perpetration of an intentional and knowing fraud against
or affecting Company or any customer, supplier, client, agent
or
employee thereof;
(c) any willful or intentional act that injures the
reputation, business or business relationships of Company or
Employee's
reputation or business relationships;
(d) conviction (including conviction on a nolo contendere
plea) of a felony or any crime involving fraud, dishonesty or
moral
turpitude; or
(e) the breach by Employee of any material covenant set
forth
in this Agreement (including without limitation the
Confidentiality,
Non-compete or Inventions provisions of the Agreement).
For purposes of this Section 1.4, no act, or failure to act,
on Employee's part shall be considered "willful," "intentional"
or
"deliberate" unless done, or omitted to be done, by Employee in
bad
faith and without reasonable belief that Employee's action or
omission
was in, or not opposed to, the best interest of Company. Any
act, or
failure to act, based upon authority given pursuant to a
resolution
duly adopted by the Board or based upon the advice of counsel
for
Company shall be conclusively presumed to be done, or omitted to
be
done, by Employee in good faith and in the best interests of
Company.
1.5 "Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the
following
events:
(a) When any "Person" (as such term is used in Sections
13(d)
and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) is
or
becomes the "Beneficial Owner" (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under
said
Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of Company
representing
more than fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power
represented by
Company's then outstanding voting securities without the
approval of
the Board; or
(b) The merger or consolidation of Company whether or not
approved by the Board, other than a merger or consolidation
which would
result in the voting securities of Company outstanding
immediately
prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining
outstanding
or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving
entity)
at least fifty percent (50%) of the total voting power
represented by
the voting securities of Company or such surviving entity
outstanding
immediately after such merger or consolidation, or the
shareholders of
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Company approve a plan of complete liquidation of Company or
an
agreement for the sale or disposition by Company of all or
substantially all of Company's assets; or
(c) One or more changes in the aggregate composition of the
Board as a result of which individuals, who, as of the date
hereof,
constitute Company's Board (the "Incumbent Board"), together
with
Employee (based on Employee's election to the Board pursuant to
Section
2.1), subsequently cease for any reason to constitute at least
a
majority of Company's Board; provided, however, that any
individual
becoming a director of Company subsequent to the date hereof,
whose
election, or nomination for election by Company's stockholders,
shall
have been approved by a vote of at least a majority of the
directors
then constituting the Incumbent Board shall be considered as
though
such individual is a member of the Incumbent Board, but
excluding as a
member of the Incumbent Board, any such individual whose
initial
assumption of office is in connection with an actual or
threatened
election contest relating to the election of the directors of
Company;
and provided further that, if one or more events which would
constitute
or reasonably be deemed likely to cause or result in a "Change
of
Control" should occur, but Employee shall have approved such
event(s)
either in writing or by vote at a meeting of Company's Board,
no
"Change of Control" shall be deemed to have occurred for
purposes of
this Agreement.
1.6 "Company" means, as the context requires, all of the
following,
jointly and severally: (a) IntegraMed America, Inc.; (b) VCA (c)
any Subsidiary;
and (d) any successor by merger, consolidation, purchase or
otherwise.
1.7"Confidential Information" means any and all information in
whatever
form, whether written, electronically stored, orally transmitted
or memorized
pertaining to: Trade Secrets; customer lists, records and other
information
regarding customers; price lists and pricing policies, financial
plans, records,
ledgers and information; purchase orders, agreements and related
data; business
development plans; products and technologies; product tests;
manufacturing
costs; product or service pricing; sales and marketing plans;
research and
development plans; personnel and employment records, files, data
and policies
(regardless of whether the information pertains to Employee or
other employees
of Company); tax or financial information; business and sales
methods and
operations; business correspondence, memoranda and other
records; Inventions,
improvements and discoveries; processes and methods; and
business operations and
related data formulae; computer records and related data;
know-how, research and
development; trademark, technology, technical information,
copyrighted material;
and any other confidential or proprietary data and information
which Employee
encounters during employment, all of which are held, possessed
and/or owned by
the Company and all of which are continually used in the
operations and business
of Company. Confidential Information does not include
information which (i) now
is or hereafter enters the public domain not as a result of a
breach of this
Agreement by Employee; or (ii) is disclosed to Employee by a
third party which
has the legal right to disclose such information.
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1.8 "Disability" means Employee's inability, due to a physical
or
mental impairment, to perform the essential functions of the
Employee's
position, where such disability shall exist for an aggregate
period of more than
120 days in any 365-day period or for any period of 90
consecutive days.
1.9 "Employee" means Kush K. Agarwal.
1.10 "Good Reason" means:
(a) Company effects a material diminution of Employee's
title
or duties;
(b) the failure by Company, or its successor, if any, to pay
compensation or provide benefits or perquisites to Employee as
and when
required by the terms of this Agreement;
(c) any material breach by Company of this Agreement;
(d) any requirement that Employee perform duties
inconsistent
with those of a senior executive officer holding Employee's
titles;
(e) the failure, refusal or inability of the Company to
maintain in full force and effect directors and officers errors
and
omissions insurance, or similar security for claims brought
against
Employee as a result of Employee's good-faith performance of
Employee's
duties; and provided Employee has not approved either in
Employee's
role as President & CEO of VCA or member of the Board any
action not to
maintain in full force and effect directors and officers errors
and
omissions insurance;
(f) the failure of the Company to remain in full and timely
compliance with reporting requirements under the Federal
Securities
laws; provided Employee has not approved either in Employee's
role as
President & CEO of VCA or member of the Board any action not
to
maintain compliance with reporting requirements under the
Federal
Securities laws; or
(g) the failure, refusal or inability of the Company to make
tax payments the liability for which may fall upon Employee;
provided
Employee has not approved either in Employee's role as President
& CEO
of VCA or a member of the Board any action not to make tax
payments the
liability for which may fall upon Employee.
1.11 "Invention" means any idea, invention, software,
technique,
modification, process, development, design, know-how, data,
formula, improvement
or similar items, whether or not reduced to writing or stored
electronically or
otherwise, whether patentable or unpatentable and whether or not
protectable by
patent, trademark, copyright or other intellectual property law,
which is
created, conceived or developed by Employee or under Employee's
direction,
whether solely or with others, during or within 12 months after
Employee's
employment by Company, which is based upon or otherwise derives
from or makes
use of the Confidential or Proprietary Information. Employee
shall promptly
disclose any Employee Invention to Company in writing. Employee
hereby
acknowledges that any and all of said Inventions are the
property of Company and
hereby assigns and agrees to assign to Company any and all of
Employee's right,
title and interest in and to any and all of said Inventions.
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1.12 "Plan" means any bonus or incentive compensation agreement,
plan,
program, policy or arrangement sponsored, maintained or
contributed to by
Company, to which Company is a party or under which employees of
Company are
covered, including, without limitation, any stock option,
restricted stock or
any other equity based compensation plan, and any employee
benefit plan, such as
a thrift, pension, profit sharing, deferred compensation,
medical, dental,
disability, accident, life insurance, automobile allowance,
perquisite, fringe
benefit, vacation, sick or parental leave, severance or
relocation plan or
policy or any other agreement, plan, program, policy or
arrangement intended to
benefit employees or executive officers of Company.
1.13 "Proprietary Information" means any and all confidential
and/or
proprietary knowledge, data or information of Company or used in
the research,
development or marketing of Company's technology or business,
including, but not
limited to, (a) Trade Secrets, Inventions, mask works, ideas,
processes,
formulas, source and object codes, data, programs, customer
lists, other works
of authorship, know-how, improvements, discoveries,
developments, designs and
techniques; and (b) information regarding plans for research,
development, new
products, marketing and selling, business plans, budgets and
unpublished
financial statements, licenses, prices and costs, suppliers and
customers; and
(c) information regarding the skills and compensation of other
employees of
Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is understood that,
at all such
times, Employee will be free to use information that is
generally known in the
trade or industry, that is not gained as a result of a breach of
this Agreement
and Employee's own, skill, knowledge, know-how and experience to
whatever extent
and in whichever way Employee desires.
1.14 "Subsidiary" means any corporation at least a majority of
whose
securities having ordinary voting power for the election of
directors (other
than securities having such power only by reason of the
occurrence of a
contingency) is at the time owned by Company and/or one or more
Subsidiaries.
1.15 "Trade Secrets" means any information (including any
compilation,
device, method, technique or process) that: (a) derives
independent economic
value, actual or potential, from not being generally known to,
and not being
readily ascertainable by proper means by, other persons who can
obtain economic
value from its disclosure or use, and (b) is the subject of
efforts that are
reasonable under the circumstances to maintain its secrecy. The
existence of a
Trade Secret will not be negated merely because a person has
acquired a Trade
Secret without express or specific notice that it is a Trade
Secret if, under
all the circumstances, such person knows or has reason to know
that the party
who owns the information or has disclosed it intends or expects
the secrecy of
the type of information comprising the Trade Secret to be
maintained. Trade
Secret
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information includes information of Company, its customers,
suppliers, joint
ventures, licensors, licensees, distributors and other entities
with which
Company does business.
1.16 "Term" means the period commencing August 8, 2007 and
terminating
in accordance with this Agreement.
Article II. Employment, Term, and Duties
2.1 Employment. Company hereby employs Employee as President
& Chief
Executive Officer of Vein Clinics of America, Inc., and Employee
accepts such
employment and agrees to perform services for Company for the
period and upon
the other terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
Employee will report
to the President & CEO of IntegraMed America, Inc. or any
successor company.
2.2 Term. The Term of this Agreement shall commence on August 8,
2007
and shall continue until terminated in accordance with this
Agreement. Employee
agrees not terminate this Agreement without cause for the first
two years of
this Agreement.
2.3 Position and Duties.
2.3.1 Service with Company. During the Term, Employee agrees
to perform such duties and responsibilities that are consistent
with
the position of a senior executive officer holding Employee's
titles
and (a) as are set forth for that position in the By-laws of
VCA; (b)
as set forth in the position description for the President and
Chief
Executive Officer of VCA; (c) as the Board shall assign to the
Employee
from time to time; and (d) that the Employee undertakes or
accepts
consistent with Employee's position. Employee acknowledges and
agrees
that, from time to time, Employee will be required to perform
duties
with respect to one or more of the Company's subsidiary or
affiliate
companies and that Employee will not be entitled to any
additional
compensation for performing those duties.
Employee also agrees to serve, for any period for which Employee
is
elected, as a director of Company; provided, however, that
Employee
shall not be entitled to any additional compensation for serving
as a
director.
Employee understands that Employee's duties may include
substantial
travel, and Employee agrees to engage in such travel as is
required to
further Company's business objectives.
2.3.2 Performance of Duties. During the Term, Employee
agrees
to serve Company faithfully and to the best of Employee's
ability and
to devote Employee's full business time, attention and efforts
to the
business and affairs of Company (exclusive of any period of
vacation,
sick, disability or other leave to which Employee is entitled)
during
normal business hours. Employee, prior to the date hereof, has
resigned
as CEO of Hair Today Gone Tomorrow, but will remain a member of
the
Board of Directors and a shareholder with no day-to-day
involvement of
said business.
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(a) Employee will comply with all rules, policies and
procedures of Company, to the extent consistent with applicable
law, as
modified from time to time, including without limitation, rules
and
procedures set forth in Company's employee handbook,
supervisor's
manuals and operating manuals provided, that to the extent
such
policies and procedures are inconsistent with this Agreement,
the
provisions of this Agreement shall control.
(b) Employee will perform all of Employee's responsibilities
in compliance with all applicable laws and will use Employee's
best
efforts in good faith to ensure that the operations that
Employee
manages are in compliance with all applicable laws.
(c) Employee hereby confirms that Employee is under no
contractual commitments inconsistent with Employee's obligations
set
forth in this Agreement and that during the Term, Employee will
not
render or perform services for any other corporation, firm,
entity or
person that are inconsistent with the provisions of this
Agreement,
whether or not such activity is pursued for gain, profit or
other
pecuniary advantage.
(d) Employee agrees that, during the Term, Employee will not
render or perform any services for any other corporation, firm,
social
organization, entity or person without the written consent of
the
President & CEO of IntegraMed. With approval Employee shall
be entitled
to hold up to two (2) positions on the Boards of Director of
entities
that do not compete with Company and shall be entitled to engage
in
charitable enterprises, provided that Employee's activities
in
connection with such Board of Director positions and/or
charitable
enterprises do not in any way interfere with the performance
of
Employee's duties to Company.
Article III. Compensation, Benefits and Expenses
3.1 Base Salary. Subject to the provisions of Article IV of
this
Agreement, during the Term, Company shall pay Employee a Base
Salary at an
annual rate that is not less than Two Hundred Fifty Thousand
Dollars
($250,000.00) or such higher annual rate as may from time to
time be approved by
the Board, such Base Salary to be paid in substantially equal
regular periodic
payments, less deductions and withholdings, in accordance with
Company's regular
payroll procedures, policies and practices as such may be
modified from time to
time. Employee shall be eligible, at the Board's sole
discretion, for annual
salary increases consistent with such procedures, policies and
practices.
Employee's Base Salary shall be reviewed for potential
adjustment on the basis
of performance from time to time, but in all events not less
frequently than
annually.
3.2 Equity Grants. Employee will be eligible for consideration
for
grants of equity in the Company and in conformity with the
practices and
procedures of the Company as in effect at such time.
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3.3 Participation in Benefits. During the Term of Employee's
employment
by Company, Employee shall be entitled to participate in the
employee benefits
offered generally by Company to its employees, to the extent
that Employee's
position, tenure, salary, health and other qualifications make
Employee eligible
to participate. Without limiting the foregoing, Employee shall
be eligible to
participate in any pension plan, or group life, health or
accident insurance or
any such other plan or policy that may presently be in effect or
that may
hereafter be adopted by the Company for the benefit of its
employees and
corporate officers generally. Employee's participation in such
benefits shall be
subject to the terms of the applicable plans, as the same may be
amended from
time to time. Company does not guarantee the adoption or
continuance of any
particular employee benefit during Employee's employment, and
nothing in this
Agreement is intended to, or shall in any way restrict the right
of Company, to
amend, modify or terminate any of its benefits during the Term
of this
Agreement.
3.4 Expenses. In accordance with Company's normal policies for
expense
reimbursement, Company will reimburse Employee for all
reasonable and necessary
expenses incurred by Employee in the performance of Employee's
duties under this
Agreement, subject to the presentment of receipts or other
documentation
acceptable to Company.
3.5 De Minimis Personal Expenses. Employee shall be permitted to
use
Company equipment, such as telephones, copy machines and
facsimile machines,
for de minimis personal matters.
3.6 Office and Facilities. During the Term, Company shall
furnish
Employee with office space at least equivalent in size, quality,
furnishings
and in other respects to the office space provided as of the
date of this
Agreement, and full-time secretarial service, together with such
other
reasonable facilities and services as are suitable, necessary
and
appropriate.
3.7 Vacation. For the duration of Employee's employment under
this
Agreement, Employee will be provided such holidays, sick leave
and vacation as
Company makes available to its management level employees
generally.
3.8 Right of Set-off. By accepting this Agreement, Employee
consents to
a deduction from any amounts Company owes Employee from time to
time (including
amounts owed to Employee as wages or other compensation, fringe
benefits or
vacation pay, as well as any other amounts owed to Employee by
Company), to the
extent of the amounts Employee may owe to Company; provided,
however, that this
set-off right shall not include any amounts owed pursuant to the
Stock Purchase
Agreement by and among Company, IDVC Acquisition Co., VCA and
other parties
thereto dated August 8, 2007. Whether or not Company elects to
make any set-off
in whole or in part, if Company does not recover by means of
set-off the full
amount Employee may owe it, calculated as set forth above,
Employee agrees to
pay immediately the unpaid balance to Company.
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Article IV. Termination and Compensation Following
Termination
4.1 Termination. Subject to the respective continuing
obligations of
the parties under this Agreement, the Term and Employee's
employment hereunder
may be terminated prior to the end of the Term under the
following
circumstances:
4.1.1 Cessation of Company Business. In the event Company
ceases doing business.
4.1.2 Mutual Agreement. By mutual written agreement of the
parties at any time.
4.1.3 Death. In the event of Employee's death in accordance
with the provisions of Section 4.4 (b).
4.1.4 Employee's Disability. In the event Employee becomes
disabled, as defined in Section 1.8.
4.1.5 Termination by Company for Cause. Company may
terminate
this Agreement and Employee's employment hereunder for Cause at
any
time after providing written notice to Employee.
4.1.6 Termination By Employee For Good Reason. Employee may
terminate Employee's employment hereunder for Good Reason.
Employee
shall have Good Reason to terminate Employee's employment only
if (i)
within 10 days following the Employee's actual knowledge of the
event
which the Employee determines constitutes Good Reason,
Employee
notifies the Company in writing that Employee has determined
Good
Reason exists and specifies the event creating Good Reason, and
(ii)
following receipt of such notice, the Company fails to remedy
such
event within 30 days. If
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