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Kevin
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Protection
of Sensitive Information, Noncompetition and Nonsolicitation
Agreement
Mr. Rollins is
employed by Dell Inc., a Delaware corporation, and/or its
affiliates (“Dell”), in a position of trust and
confidence. In the performance of his duties for Dell,
Mr. Rollins will be provided with Dell Sensitive Information
(as that term is described below). Dell seeks to protect its
confidential and proprietary information, trade secrets and
goodwill. Therefore, Mr. Rollins and Dell (collectively,
“the Parties”), have agreed as follows:
1. Mr. Rollins
and Dell have entered into a Separation Agreement and Release
whereby Mr. Rollins will be employed by Dell for a definite
period of time (subject to the terms of that Agreement). During
Mr. Rollins employment with Dell, Dell agrees to provide
Mr. Rollins with Sensitive Information (as that term is
defined below) and to associate Mr. Rollins with Dell’s
goodwill.
2. “Sensitive
Information” means that subset of Confidential Information
(as that term is defined in Mr. Rollins’s Employment
Agreement with Dell) that is not generally disclosed to
non-management employees of Dell. Sensitive Information
include:
a. Technical
information of Dell, its affiliates, its customers or other third
parties that is in use, planned, or under development, such as but
not limited to: manufacturing and/or research processes or
strategies (including design rules, device characteristics, process
flow, manufacturing capabilities and yields); computer product,
process and/or devices (including device specification, system
architectures, logic designs, circuit implementations); software
product (including operating system adaptations or enhancements,
language compilers, interpreters, translators, design and
evaluation tools and application programs ); and any other
databases, methods, know-how, formulae, compositions, technological
data, technological prototypes, processes, discoveries, machines,
inventions and similar items;
b. Business
information of Dell, its affiliates, its customers or other third
parties, such as but not limited to: actual and anticipated
relationships between Dell and other companies; financial
information (including sales levels, pricing, profit levels and
other unpublished financial data); global procurement processes,
strategies or information; information relating to customer or
vendor relationships (including performance requirements,
development and delivery schedules, device and/or product pricing
and/or quantities, customer lists, customer preferences, financial
information, credit information; and similar items;
c. Personnel
information of Dell and its affiliates, such as but not limited to:
information relating to employees of Dell (including information
related to staffing, performance, skills, qualifications, abilities
and compensation); key talent information, scaling calls;
organizational human resource planning information; and similar
items; and
d. Information
relating to future plans of Dell, its affiliates, its customers or
other third parties, such as but not limited to: marketing
strategies; new product research; pending projects and proposals;
proprietary production processes; research and development
strategies; and similar items.
3. Mr. Rollins
agrees not to use, publish, misappropriate, or disclose any
Sensitive Information, during or after Mr. Rollins’s
employment, except as required in the performance of
Mr. Rollins’s duties for Dell or as expressly authorized
in writing by Michael Dell.
4. Mr. Rollins
agrees not to misappropriate or misuse Dell’s
goodwill.
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5. To protect
Dell’s Sensitive Information and goodwill, and so as to
enforce Mr. Rollins’s agreements herein,
Mr. Rollins agrees to the following restrictive
covenants:
a. While
Mr. Rollins is employed by Dell and for the twelve-month
period immediately following the end of Mr. Rollins’s
employment with Dell (said date contemplated as May 4, 2007,
hereinafter referred to as the “end date”),
Mr. Rollins will not, in any geographic region for which Mr.
Rollins had direct or indirect responsibility on behalf of Dell or
in any geographic region for which Mr. Rollins had Sensitive
Information, perform services for a Direct Com
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