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AMAZON BIOTECH, INC.
2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN NO. 3
1. Purpose. The purpose of the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan No. 3
of Amazon
Biotech, Inc. is to further align the interests of employees,
directors and
non-employee Consultants with those of the stockholders by
providing incentive
compensation opportunities tied to the performance of the Common
Stock and by
promoting increased ownership of the Common Stock by such
individuals. The Plan
is also intended to advance the interests of the Company and its
stockholders by
attracting, retaining and motivating key personnel upon whose
judgment,
initiative and effort the successful conduct of the Company's
business is
largely dependent.
2. Definitions. Wherever the following capitalized terms are
used in the
Plan, they shall have the meanings specified below:
"Affiliate" means (i) any entity that would be treated as an
"affiliate" of the Company for purposes of Rule 12b-2 under the
Exchange
Act and (ii) any joint venture or other entity in which the
Company has a
direct or indirect beneficial ownership interest representing at
least
one-third (1/3) of the aggregate voting power of the equity
interests of
such entity or one-third (1/3) of the aggregate fair market
value of the
equity interests of such entity, as determined by the
Committee.
"Award" means an award of a Stock Option, Stock Award, or
Restricted
Stock Award granted under the Plan.
"Award Agreement" means a written or electronic agreement
entered
into between the Company and a Participant setting forth the
terms and
conditions of an Award granted to a Participant.
"Board" means the Board of Directors of the Company. "Code"
means
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. "Common Stock"
means the
Company's common stock, $0.001 par value per share. "Committee"
means the
Compensation Committee of the Board, or such other committee of
the Board
appointed by the Board to administer the Plan, or if no such
committee
exists, the Board.
"Company" means Amazon Biotech, Inc., a Utah corporation.
"Consultant" means any person which is a consultant or advisor
to
the Company and which is a natural person and who provides bona
fide
services to the Company which are not in connection with the
offer or sale
of securities in a capital-raising transaction for the Company,
and do not
directly or indirectly promote or maintain a market for the
Company's
securities.
"Date of Grant" means the date on which an Award under the Plan
is
made by the Committee, or such later date as the Committee may
specify to
be the effective date of an Award.
"Disability" means a Participant being considered "disabled"
within
the meaning of Section 409A(a)(2)(C) of the Code, unless
otherwise
provided in an Award Agreement.
"Eligible Person" means any person who is an employee of the
Company
or any Affiliate or any person to whom an offer of employment
with the
Company or any Affiliate is extended, as determined by the
Committee, or
any person who is a Non-Employee Director, or any person who is
Consultant
to the Company.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
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"Fair Market Value" means the mean between the highest and
lowest
reported sales prices of the Common Stock on the New York Stock
Exchange
Composite Tape or, if not listed on such exchange, on any other
national
securities exchange on which the Company's common stock is
listed or on
The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if not so listed on any other
national
securities exchange or The Nasdaq Stock Market, then the average
of the
bid price of the Company's common stock during the last five
trading days
on the OTC Bulletin Board immediately preceding the last trading
day prior
to the date with respect to which the Fair Market Value is to
be
determined. If the Company's common stock is not then publicly
traded,
then the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock shall be the book
value of
the Company per share as determined on the last day of March,
June,
September, or December in any year closest to the date when
the
determination is to be made. For the purpose of determining book
value
hereunder, book value shall be determined by adding as of the
applicable
date called for herein the capital, surplus, and undivided
profits of the
Company, and after having deducted any reserves theretofore
established;
the sum of these items shall be divided by the number of shares
of the
Company's common stock outstanding as of said date, and the
quotient thus
obtained shall represent the book value of each share of the
Company's
common stock.
"Incentive Stock Option" means a Stock Option granted under
Section
6 hereof that is intended to meet the requirements of Section
422 of the
Code and the regulations thereunder.
"Non-Employee Director" means any member of the Board who is not
an
employee of the Company. "Nonqualified Stock Option" means a
Stock Option
granted under Section 6 hereof that is not an Incentive Stock
Option.
"Participant" means any Eligible Person who holds an
outstanding
Award under the Plan. "Plan" means the 2006 Stock Incentive Plan
No. 3 of
Amazon Biotech, Inc. as set forth herein, as amended from time
to time.
"Restricted Stock Award" means a grant of shares of Common Stock
to
an Eligible Person under Section 8 hereof that are issued
subject to such
vesting and transfer restrictions as the Committee shall
determine and set
forth in an Award Agreement.
"Service" means a Participant's employment with the Company or
any
Affiliate or a Participant's service as a Non-Employee Director
with the
Company, as applicable.
"Stock Award" means a grant of shares of Common Stock to an
Eligible
Person under Section 7 hereof that are issued free of
transfer
restrictions and forfeiture conditions.
"Stock Option" means a contractual right granted to an
Eligible
Person under Section 6 hereof to purchase shares of Common Stock
at such
time and price, and subject to such conditions, as are set forth
in the
Plan and the applicable Award Agreement.
3. Administration.
3.1 Committee Members. The Plan shall be administered by a
Committee
comprised of one or more members of the Board, or if no such
committee exists,
the Board.
3.2 Committee Authority. The Committee shall have such powers
and
authority as may be necessary or appropriate for the Committee
to carry out its
functions as described in the Plan. Subject to the express
limitations of the
Plan, the Committee shall have authority in its discretion to
determine the
Eligible Persons to whom, and the time or times at which, Awards
may be granted,
the number of shares, units or other rights subject to each
Award, the exercise,
base or purchase price of an Award (if any), the time or times
at which an Award
will become vested, exercisable or payable, the performance
goals and other
conditions of an Award, the duration of the Award, and all other
terms of the
Award. Subject to the terms of the Plan, the Committee shall
have the authority
to amend the terms of an Award in any manner that is not
inconsistent with the
Plan, provided that no such action shall adversely affect the
rights of a
Participant with respect to an outstanding Award without the
Participant's
consent. The Committee shall also have discretionary authority
to interpret the
Plan, to make factual determinations under the Plan, and to make
all other
determinations necessary or advisable for Plan administration,
including,
without limitation, to correct any defect, to supply any
omission or to
reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan or any Award Agreement
hereunder. The
Committee may prescribe, amend, and rescind rules and
regulations relating to
the Plan. The Committee's determinations under the Plan need not
be uniform and
may be made by the Committee selectively among Participants and
Eligible
Persons, whether or not such persons are similarly situated. The
Committee
shall, in its discretion, consider such factors as it deems
relevant in making
its interpretations, determinations and actions under the Plan
including,
without limitation, the recommendations or advice of any officer
or employee of
the Company or such attorneys, consultants, accountants or other
advisors as it
may select. All interpretations, determinations and actions by
the Committee
shall be final, conclusive, and binding upon all parties.
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3.3 Delegation of Authority. The Committee shall have the right,
from time
to time, to delegate to one or more officers of the Company the
authority of the
Committee to grant and determine the terms and conditions of
Awards granted
under the Plan, subject to the requirements of state law and
such other
limitations as the Committee shall determine. In no event shall
any such
delegation of authority be permitted with respect to Awards to
any members of
the Board or to any Eligible Person who is subject to Rule 16b-3
under the
Exchange Act or Section 162(m) of the Code. The Committee shall
also be
permitted to delegate, to any appropriate officer or employee of
the Company,
responsibility for performing certain ministerial functions
under the Plan. In
the event that the Committee's authority is delegated to
officers or employees
in accordance with the foregoing, all provisions of the Plan
relating to the
Committee shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with the
foregoing by
treating any such reference as a reference to such officer or
employee for such
purpose. Any action undertaken in accordance with the
Committee's delegation of
authority hereunder shall have the same force and effect as if
such action was
undertaken directly by the Committee and shall be deemed for all
purposes of the
Plan to have been taken by the Committee.
4. Shares Subject to the Plan.
4.1 Maximum Share Limitations. Subject to Section 4.3 hereof,
the maximum
aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued
and sold under all
Awards granted under the Plan shall be Seven Million (7,000,000)
shares. Shares
of Common Stock issued and sold under the Plan may be either
authorized but
unissued shares or shares held in the Company's treasury. To the
extent that any
Award involving the issuance of shares of Common Stock is
forfeited, cancelled,
returned to the Company for failure to satisfy vesting
requirements or other
conditions of the Award, or otherwise terminates without an
issuance of shares
of Common Stock being made thereunder, the shares of Common
Stock covered
thereby will no longer be counted against the foregoing maximum
share
limitations and may again be made subject to Awards under the
Plan pursuant to
such limitations. Any Awards or portions thereof that are
settled in cash and
not in shares of Common Stock shall not be counted against the
foregoing maximum
share limitations.
4.2 Adjustments. If there shall occur any change with respect to
the
outstanding shares of Common Stock by reason of any
recapitalization,
reclassification, stock dividend, extraordinary dividend, stock
split, reverse
stock split or other distribution with respect to the shares of
Common Stock, or
any merger, reorganization, consolidation, combination, spin-off
or other
similar corporate change, or any other change affecting the
Common Stock, the
Committee may, in the manner and to the extent that it deems
appropriate and
equitable to the Participants and consistent with the terms of
the Plan, cause
an adjustment to be made in (i) the maximum number and kind of
shares provided
in Section 4.1 hereof, (ii) the number and kind of shares of
Common Stock, or
other rights subject to then outstanding Awards, (iii) the
exercise or base
price for each share or other right subject to then outstanding
Awards, and (iv)
any other terms of an Award that are affected by the event.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, in the case of Incentive Stock Options, any such
adjustments shall,
to the extent practicable, be made in a manner consistent with
the requirements
of Section 424(a) of the Code.
4.3 Anti-Dilution. Notwithstanding anything contained in the
Plan to cover
the contrary, including any adjustments discussed in this
Section 4, the maximum
aggregate number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued
and sold under all
Awards granted under the Plan shall be anti-dilutive in the
event of a reverse
stock split by the Company and shall not result in any reduction
in the number
of shares available and authorized under the Plan at the
effective time of such
reverse stock split(s).
5. Participation and Awards.
5.1 Designations of Participants. All Eligible Persons are
eligible to be
designated by the Committee to receive Awards and become
Participants under the
Plan. The Committee has the authority, in its discretion, to
determine and
designate from time to time those Eligible Persons who are to be
granted Awards,
the types of Awards to be granted and the number of shares of
Common Stock or
units subject to Awards granted under the Plan. In selecting
Eligible Persons to
be Participants and in determining the type and amount of Awards
to be granted
under the Plan, the Committee shall consider any and all factors
that it deems
relevant or appropriate.
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5.2 Determination of Awards. The Committee shall determine the
terms and
conditions of all Awards granted to Participants in accordance
with its
authority under Section 3.2 hereof. An Award may consist of one
type of right or
benefit hereunder or of two or more such rights or benefits
granted in tandem or
in the alternative. In the case of any fractional share or unit
resulting from
the grant, vesting, payment or crediting of dividends or
dividend equivalents
under an Award, the Committee shall have the discretionary
authority to (i)
disregard such fractional share or unit, (ii) round such
fractional share or
unit to the nearest lower or higher whole share or unit, or
(iii) convert such
fractional share or unit into a right to receive a cash payment.
To the extent
deemed necessary by the Committee, an Award shall be evidenced
by an Award
Agreement as described in Section 11.1 hereof.
6. Stock Options.
6.1 Grant of Stock Options. A Stock Option may be granted to any
Eligible
Person selected by the Committee. Subject to the provisions of
Section 6.8
hereof and Section 422 of the Code, each Stock Option shall be
designated, in
the discretion of the Committee, as an Incentive Stock Option or
as a
Nonqualified Stock Option.
6.2 Exercise Price. The exercise price per share of a Stock
Option shall
not be less than 85 percent of the Fair Market Value of the
shares of Common
Stock on the Date of Grant, provided that the Committee may in
its discretion
specify for any Stock Option an exercise price per share that is
higher than the
Fair Market Value on the Date of Grant, except that the price
shall not be less
than 110 percent of the Fair Market Value in the case of any
person who owns
securities possessing more than 10 percent of the total combined
voting power of
all classes of securities of the Company.
6.3 Vesting of Stock Options. The Committee shall in its
discretion
prescribe the time or times at which, or the conditions upon
which, a Stock
Option or portion thereof shall become vested and/or
exercisable, and may
accelerate the vesting or exercisability of any Stock Option at
any time,
provided, however, that any Stock Option shall vest at the rate
of at least
twenty percent (20%) per year over five (5) years from the date
the Stock Option
is granted, subject to reasonable conditions as may be provided
for in the Award
Agreement. However, in the case of a Stock Option granted to
officers,
Non-employee Directors, managers or Consultants of the Company,
the Stock Option
may become fully exercisable, subject to reasonable conditions,
at anytime or
during any period established by the Company. The requirements
for vesting and
exercisability of a Stock Option may be based on the continued
Service of the
Participant with the Company or its Affiliates for a specified
time period (or
periods) or on the attainment of specified performance goals
established by the
Committee in its discretion.
6.4 Term of Stock Options. The Committee shall in its discretion
prescribe
in an Award Agreement the period during which a vested Stock
Option may be
exercised, provided that the maximum term of a Stock Option
shall be ten years
from the Date of Grant. Except as otherwise provided in this
Section 6 or as
otherwise may be provided by the Committee, no Stock Option
issued to an
employee or a Non-Employee Director of the Company may be
exercised at any time
during the term thereof unless the employee or a Non-Employee
Director
Participant is then in the Service of the Company or one of its
Affiliates.
6.5 Termination of Service. Subject to Section 6.8 hereof with
respect to
Incentive Stock Options, the Stock Option of any Participant
whose Service with
the Company or one of its Affiliates is terminated for any
reason shall
terminate on the earlier of (A) the date that the Stock Option
expires in
accordance with its terms or (B) unless otherwise provided in an
Award
Agreement, and except for termination for cause (as described in
Section 10.2
hereof), the expiration of the applicable time period following
termination of
Service, in accordance with the following: (1) twelve months if
Service ceased
due to Disability, (2) eighteen months if Service ceased at a
time when the
Participant is eligible to elect immediate commencement of
retirement benefits
at a specified retirement age under a pension plan to which the
Company or any
of its Affiliates had made contributions, (3) eighteen months if
the Participant
died while in the Service of the Company or any of its
Affiliates, or (iv) three
months if Service ceased for any other reason. During the
foregoing applicable
period, except as otherwise specified in the Award Agreement or
in the event
Service was terminated by the death of the Participant, the
Stock Option may be
exercised by such Participant in respect of the same number of
shares of Common
Stock, in the same manner, and to the same extent as if he or
she had remained
in the continued Service of the Company or any Affiliate during
the first three
months of such period; provided that no additional rights shall
vest after such
three months. The Committee shall have authority to determine in
each case
whether an authorized leave of absence shall be deemed a
termination of Service
for purposes hereof, as well as the effect of a leave of absence
on the vesting
and exercisability of a Stock Option. Unless otherwise provided
by the
Committee, if an entity ceases to be an Affiliate of the Company
or otherwise
ceases to be qualified under the Plan or if all or substantially
all of the
assets of an Affiliate of the Company are conveyed (other than
by encumbrance),
such cessation or action, as the case may be, shall be deemed
for purposes
hereof to be a termination of the Service.
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6.6 Stock Option Exercise; Tax Withholding. Subject to such
terms and
conditions as shall be specified in an Award Agreement, a Stock
Option may be
exercised in whole or in part at any time during the term
thereof by notice in
the form required by the Company, together with payment of the
aggregate
exercise price therefor and applicable withholding tax. Payment
of the exercise
price shall be made in the manner set forth in the Award
Agreement, unless
otherwise provided by the Committee: (i) in cash or by cash
equivalent
acceptable to the Committee, (ii) by payment in shares of Common
Stock that have
been held by the Participant for at least six months (or such
period as the
Committee may deem appropriate, for accounting purposes or
otherwise) valued at
the Fair Market Value of such shares on the date of exercise,
(iii) through an
open-market, broker-assisted sales transaction pursuant to which
the Company is
promptly delivered the amount of proceeds necessary to satisfy
the exercise
price, (iv) by a combination of the methods described above or
(v) by such other
method as may be approved by the Committee and set forth in the
Award Agreement.
In addition to and at the time of payment of the exercise price,
the Participant
shall pay to the Company the full amount of any and all
applicable income tax,
employment tax and other amounts required to be withheld in
connection with such
exercise, payable under such of the methods described above for
the payment of
the exercise price as may be approved by the Committee and set
forth in the
Award Agreement.
6.7 Limited Transferability of Nonqualified Stock Options. All
Stock
Options shall be nontransferable except (i) upon the
Participant's death, in
accordance with Section 11.2 hereof or (ii) in the case of
Nonqualified Stock
Options only, for the transfer of all or part of the Stock
Option to a
Participant's "family member" (as defined for purposes of the
Form S-8
registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933), as may
be approved by
the Committee in its discretion at the time of proposed
transfer. The transfer
of a Nonqualified Stock Option may be subject to such terms and
conditions as
the Committee may in its discretion impose from time to time.
Subsequent
transfers of a Nonqualified Stock Option shall be prohibited
other than in
accordance with Section 11.2 hereof.
6.8 Additional R
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