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OPTION AGREEMENT

Option Agreement

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Title: OPTION AGREEMENT
Date: 5/7/2008
Industry: Constr. - Supplies and Fixtures     Sector: Capital Goods

OPTION AGREEMENT, Parties: lapolla industries inc
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Exhibit 10.2

OPTION AGREEMENT

THIS OPTION AGREEMENT, effective as of May 5, 2008, by and between LAPOLLA INDUSTRIES, INC. a Delaware corporation (the “Company”) and DOUGLAS J. KRAMER (the “Executive”).

WHEREAS, the Board of Directors of the Company previously authorized and approved the Equity Incentive Plan, effective as of July 12, 2005 ("Plan"), which Plan was amended effective as of January 16, 2007.  The Plan provides for the grant of Options to employees, directors and consultants of the Company.  Unless otherwise provided herein all defined terms shall have the respective meanings ascribed to them under the Plan;

WHEREAS, Company and Executive previously entered into an Option Agreement dated July 12, 2005, which Agreement was amended as of July 28, 2005 (said Agreement and amendment are collectively referred to as the “Prior Agreement”);

WHEREAS, Company and Executive have determined that it would be in the best interests of Company and Executive to amend certain provisions of the Prior Agreement as they relate to the options that were granted to Executive to acquire 2,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock, $.01 par value per share, at any exercise price of $.67 per share (“Existing Options”); and

WHEREAS, the Company has determined that an option to acquire an additional 2,000,000 shares of Company common stock, $.01 par value per share should be granted to Executive, effective May 5, 2008.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the respective agreements of the parties contained herein, it is agreed as follows:

A.             Grant and Terms of New Options.   Pursuant to authority granted to it under the Plan, the Administrator of the Plan hereby grants to Executive in his capacity as an employee of the Company (“Optionee”), effective as of May 5, 2008 ("Grant Date"), 2,000,000 options. Subject to the provisions below, each Option permits Optionee to purchase one share of LaPolla Industries, Inc. common stock, $.01 par value per share ("Shares").

1.              Character of Options .  Pursuant to the Plan, Options granted herein may be Incentive Stock Options or Non-Qualified Stock Options, or both. To the extent permitted under the Plan and by law, such Options shall first be considered Incentive Stock Options.

2.              Exercise Price . The Exercise Price for each Non-Qualified Stock Option granted herein is the per Share closing price on May 5, 2008.

3.              Vesting.   The Options granted hereunder vest upon satisfaction of the following criteria:

 
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3.1           250,000 Options on the earlier of: (i) June 30, 2008, provided the Company has net pre-tax income for the fiscal quarter ending on that date, as indicated on its Form 10-Q filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“Quarterly Profit”); or (ii) the last day of the Company’s first fiscal quarter ending after June 30, 2008 for which the Company has Quarterly Profit, subject in all cases to continued satisfactory employment through the vesting date;

3.2           An additional 250,000 options on the last day of each of the next seven fiscal quarters for which Company has Quarterly Profit, subject to continued satisfactory employment through the last day of each such fiscal quarter.

4.              Exercisability.   Once vested, the options shall be exercisable, on a cumulative basis, in accordance with the following schedule: eight and one-third percent (8 1/3%) of the vested options shall be exercisable twelve (12) months from the date of vesting; sixteen and two-third percent (16 2/3%) of the vested options shall be exercisable twenty-four (24) months from the date of vesting; twenty-five percent (25%) of the vested options shall be exercisable thirty-six (36) months from the date of vesting; and one hundred percent (100%) of the vested options shall be exercisable forty-eight (48) months from the date of vesting.

5.              Term of Options.   All then existing and unexercised Options, whether or not previously vested, shall expire on December 31, 2013.

B.             Amendments to Existing Options.   Company and Optionee amend Sections 4 and 5 of the Prior Agreement to provide, in full, as follows:

“4.            Vesting and Exercisability.   All of the Options, whether or not previously vested, shall be vested as of May 5, 2008.  Once vested, the options shall be exercisable, on a cumulative basis, in accordance with the following schedule: eight and one-third percent (8 1/3%) of the vested options shall be exercisable twelve (12) months from the date of vesting; sixteen and two-third percent (16 2/3%) of the vested options shall be exercisable twenty-four (24) months from the date of vesting; twenty-five percent (25%) of the vested options shall be exercisable thirty-six (36) months from the date of vesting; and one hundred percent (100%) of the vested options shall be exercisable forty-eight (48) months from the date of vesting.

5.             Term of Options.   All then existing and unexercised Options, whether or not then vested, shall expire on December 31, 2012.”

Except as provided in Sections 4 and 5 above, the terms of the Prior Agreement are the same as they were immediately prior to the adoption of this Amendment.  For ease of reference purposes, Sections 6 through and including 13 of the Prior Agreement are restated in their entirety in Section C below.

C.           Terms Applicable to the New and the Existing Options.

1.              Payment of Exercise Price .  Options represented hereby may be exercised in whole or in part by delivering to the Company your payment of the Exercise Price of the Option so exercised (i) in cash, by check or cash equivalent, (ii) by tender to the Company of shares of Stock owned by the Participant having a Fair Market Value not less than the exercise price; (iii) by tender to the Company of a written consent to accept a reduction in the number of shares of Stock to which the Option relates (“ Reduced Number of Shares ”), which Reduced Number of Shares, when ascribed a value, shall be equal to the exercise price of the balance of shares of Stock

 
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