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EXHIBIT 10.1
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STOCK OPTION AGREEMENT
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This Stock
Option Agreement (this "Agreement") is entered into as of
"Company"), and Herman Rappaport (the
"Option Holder").
A. The
Company has adopted the 2004 Equity Compensation Plan (the "Plan").
The Option Holder has had an
opportunity to review the Plan.
B. The
Option Holder is a director and the President of the Company and is
eligible to receive option grants
under the Plan. This Agreement is intended by the
parties to evidence the Company’s grant to the Option Holder
of an option to
purchase shares of its common stock.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which hereby are acknowledged, the
Company and the Option Holder hereby agree as
follows:
1. Option Grant and Exercise Price.
(a) Effective as of October 26, 2006 the Company hereby grants
to the Option Holder the right and option
(the "Option") to purchase, on the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement and in the Plan, Eight
hundred and fifty
thousand (850,000) shares of its common stock, par
value $0.01 per share ("Common Stock"), at an exercise price of
$0.15 per
share. The Option exercise price was determined in
accordance with Section 2(p) of the Plan.
(b) The Option is a non-qualified stock option, and is not
intended by the Company and the Option Holder to
be an incentive stock option within the meaning of
Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
2. Vesting and Term of the Option.
(a)
Option Vesting. The Option is fully vested and is exercisable on
October 26, 2006.
(b) Option Term. The Option shall be exercisable in whole or
in part prior to October 26, 2016. The Option
shall terminate on October 26, 2016, and no portion
of the Option may be exercised on or after that date. The
exercisability of the
Option is not contingent on the termination of the
Option Holder’s employment or directorship with the Company,
it being
understood that the Option Holder shall retain the
right to exercise the Option until October 26, 2016 even after the
termination of
his employment or directorship with the
Company.
3. Manner of Exercising the Option. The Option
Holder may exercise the vested portion of the Option in whole or in
part
prior to the Option’s termination, provided
that a partial exercise of the Option may not be for fewer than one
hundred (100)
shares of Common Stock unless fewer than one hundred
(100) shares subject to the vested portion of the Option
remain
unexercised, in which event the entire remaining
vested portion of the Option must be exercised at one
time.
The Option shall not be exercisable with respect to
a fraction of a share of Common Stock. The Option Holder may
exercise the
vested portion of the Option, in whole or in part,
by delivering to the Company’s General Counsel written notice
of exercise in
the form of the notice attached to this Agreement as
Exhibit A. Such notice shall specify the number of shares of Common
Stock
to be purchased and shall be accompanied by payment
of the purchase price of the shares. No shares shall be issued by
the
Company until full payment of the purchase price has
been made.
4. Payment of the Option Exercise Price. Payment of
the exercise price of the shares of Common Stock subject to
the
exercised portion of the Option shall be made in
accordance with Section 6(c) of the Plan.
5. Transferability of the Option.
(a)
Except as provided in this Section 5, the Option Holder may not
assign or otherwise transfer the Option,
either voluntarily or by operation of law, other
than by will or the laws of descent and distribution, and the
Option shall be
exercisable during the Option Holder’s
lifetime only by the Option Holder or by the Option Holder’s
legal representative.
Following the death of the Option Holder, the Option
shall be exercisable by the Option Holder’s legal
representative, executor
and beneficiaries.
(b)
The Option Holder may assign and transfer part or all of the Option
to a family member or family trust
during the Option Holder’s lifetime but only
if: (i) the transfer is made by a gift and not for consideration;
(ii) the transferee is a
"family member" (including, without limitation, a
family trust) as defined in General Instruction A.1(a)(5) of Form
S-8 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities
Act"); (iii) the Option Holder gives the Company at least ten
days’ prior
written notice of the proposed transfer; and (iv)
the transferee executes and delivers to the Company any documents
requested by
the Company (including, without limitation, a
counterpart of this Agreement) in order to document the transfer.
Any such
transferee of all or part of the Option shall be
bound by all of the terms and conditions of the Plan and this
Agreement, and the
Option Holder shall be personally liable to the
Company for any breach by the transferee of any of the terms of the
Plan or this
Agreement.
6. Securities Law Compliance. No shares of Common
Stock shall be issued or delivered upon exercise of the
Option
unless and until the Board determines that the
exercise of the Option and the issuance and delivery of such shares
pursuant
thereto will comply with all relevant provisions of
law, including, without limitation, the Securities Act, applicable
state and
foreign securities laws and the requirements of any
stock exchange or over-the-counter trading system upon which the
Common
Stock may be listed.
7. Incorporation by Reference of the Plan. The Plan
and all of its terms and conditions, as amended from time to time,
are
incorporated by reference into this Agreement. The
Option Holder acknow
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