1. | Business. PDI is a leading provider of integrated multi-channel promotional outsource services, which includes (outsourced) Dedicated Sales Teams, Shared Sales Teams, Clinical Educator Teams and Medical Science Liaison Teams, Marketing Services Segment and Product Commercialization Services, as well as other promotional services including tele-detailing, digital promotion including e-detailing, medical education and clinical |
2. | Term of Agreement. This Agreement shall continue in full force and effect for the duration of Employee’s employment with PDI; provided, however, that after the termination of Employee’s employment with PDI this Agreement shall remain in effect until all of the obligations of the parties hereunder are satisfied or have expired. |
3. | Employer. As used herein, the terms“PDI” and “Employer” shall also include any business entity, which is at any time the parent ora subsidiary of PDI or any corporation or other entity, or which is an affiliate of PDI by virtue of common (although not identical) ownership, and for which Employee is providing services in any form during his/her employment with PDI or any such other corporation or entity including, but not limited to, Group DCA, L.L.C. (a foreign limited liability company qualified to do business in New Jersey) and Interpace BioPharma, L.L.C., a domestic New Jersey limited liability company. |
4. | Notices. Any notice required to, or permitted to, be given hereunder shall be sufficient if in writing (a) delivered personally, (b) sent by first class certified mail, return receipt requested, postage and fees prepaid, or (c) sent by prepaid overnight delivery service, to the parties at the following addresses (or at such other addresses as shall be specified by the parties in a like notice): |
If to Employee: | Notices to the Employee should be sent to the address indicated on page 1 of this document. |
5. | Confidential Information, Non-Disclosure. The Employee understands and recognizes that his/her position with the Employer will afford the Employee substantial access to Confidential Information (as that term is defined below), the unauthorized use, disclosure and/or publication of which would cause the Employer to suffer substantial damage to and interfere with the current or contemplated Business of the Employer and may cause irreparable injury to Employer. The Employee further understands and recognizes, therefore, that it is in the Employer’s legitimate business interest to restrict the Employee’s use of Confidential Information for any purposes other than the discharge of Employee’s duties at the Employer in furtherance of the Business, and to limit any potential appropriation of Confidential Information by the Employee for the benefit of the Employer’s competitors and to the detriment of the Employer. Accordingly, the Employee agrees as follows: |
a. | During and after the Employee’s employment with the Employer, the Employee will not, without the prior written consent of the Employer, or as may otherwise be required by law or legal process, communicate or disclose to any other person or company, nor use for the Employee’s own personal benefit, except as may be necessary in the performance of the Employee’s duties as an employee of the Employer, any Confidential Information disclosed to him or her or of which the Employee becomes aware or develops or is given access to by reason of the Employee’s employment or association with the Employer. |
b. | The term “Confidential Information” means any and all data and information relating to the Employer and/or its Business (whether or not it constitutes a trade secret) or data and information received by the Employer from third parties including, but not limited to clients and business partners in confidence (or subject to a Non-Disclosure covenant), which is, or has been, disclosed to the Employee or of which the Employee became or becomes aware as a consequence of his or her employment relationship with the Employer and which has value to the Employer and is not generally known by its competitors including, but not limited to, information concerning PDI’s integrated multi-channel promotional services, other promotional services including teledetailing, digital promotions including e-detailing, medical education and clinical coordinators, digital network systems, business and marketing plans, long range goals and objectives, assets and liabilities, technical and engineering |
c. | The Employee understands and agrees that upon termination of the Employee’s employment with the Employer, the Employee will not take with him/her, or retain without written authorization from the Employer, any documents, files or other property of the Employer, and the Employee will promptly return to the Employer any such documents, files or property in his/her possession or control, including all copies, extracts, reproductions or notes, as may have been made by or on behalf of the Employee. If the Employee has stored Confidential Information on any personal desktop or laptop devices, Personal Digital Assistants (“PDAs”), mobile/smart phones, external hard drives, “flash” or similar USB storages devices, Fire Wire storage devices, digital music players, digital tapes, floppy diskettes, CDs, DVDs, memory cards, zip diskettes, as well as maintained in personal e-mail accounts (including web based e-mail accounts such as Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, etc.) and other electronic or online communications applications, such as text messaging, social media networks (i.e. Facebook, Linked In, My Space, etc.), chat rooms and similar environments and all other media, which can be utilized to store or transmit electronic data and communications (regardless of whether the media utilized is owned by the Employer, the Employee or a third party, or where the media is located) then the Employee must make those devices available to the Employer or provide access to those accounts or communications in order to enable the Employer to search for such Confidential Information and to remove and/or make complete copies of the media/communications and all information stored. |
6. | Non-Solicitation. Except as otherwise approved in writing by Employer, Employeeagrees that Employee will not, directly or indirectly, with or through any family member, or former directors, officers or employees of Employer, or acting alone or as a member of a partnership or limited liability company or as an officer, holder of or investor in as much as five (5%) percent of any security of any class, director, employee, consultant or representative of any corporation or other business entity (i) at any time whilst engaged as an employee of the Employer, and for a period of 1 year following termination as an employee, interfere with, or seek to interfere with the relationship or otherwise alter, limit or terminate such relationship between the Employer and the following: (a) any of the employees of the Employerat any time within 6 months prior to the cessation of Employee’s employment with the Employer, such as inducing or attempting to induce any employee to leave employment with the Employer or hire any such employee; (b) any of the customers or clients of the Employer then existing or existing at any time within6 months prior to the cessation of Employee’s employment with the Employer with which Employee personally had contact or access to Confidential Information about, or (c) any of the suppliers or licensees of the Employer, then existing or existing at any time within 6 months prior to cessation of the Employee’s employment with the Employer. |
7. | Non-Competition. It is recognized and understood by the parties hereto that Employee, through Employee’s association with the Employer as an Employee, shall acquire a considerable amount of knowledge and goodwill with respect to the Business of the Employer, as well as access to the Employer’s clients, which knowledge, goodwill and relationships are extremely valuable to Employer and which would be extremely detrimental to Employer if used by Employee to compete with Employer. It is therefore understood and agreed to by the parties hereto that because of the nature of the Business of the Employer, it is necessary to afford fair protection to Employer from competition by Employee. Consequently, as a material |
8. | Rights to Intellectual Property. All inventions, improvements, modifications, ideas, styles, trade names and the like, whether or not reduced to writing or stored electronically or otherwise and whether or not protectable by patent, trademark, copyright or other intellectual property law, which relate or are susceptible for use directly or indirectly in the Employer’s Business that are originated in whole, or in part, by Employee (alone or jointly with others) during his/her term of employment with the Employer, irrespective of whether they were conceived, developed, suggested or perfected (i) during the Employee’s regular working |
(i) | The Employee shall without charge, but at the expense of the Employer, promptly at all times thereafter execute and deliver such applications, assignments, descriptions and other instruments, as may be reasonably necessary or proper in the opinion of the Employer to vest title to any such inventions, improvements, technical information, patent applications, patents, copyrights or reissues thereof in the Employer, and to enable it to obtain and maintain the entire right and title thereto through the word; and |
(ii) | The Employee shall render to the Employer at its expense (including reimbursement to the Employee of reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Employee and a reasonable payment for the Employee’s time involved in case he/she is not then in its employ) all such assistance as it may require in the prosecution of applications for said patents, copyright or reissues thereof, in the prosecution, or defense of interferences, which may be declared involving any said applications, patents or copyrights and in any litigation in which the Employer may be involved relating to any such patents, inventions, improvements or technical improvements. |
9. | Reasonableness of Restrictions. |
a. | Employee has carefully read and considered the provisions of Paragraphs 5 through 8 hereof, and having done so agrees that the restrictions set forth therein are fair and reasonable and are reasonably required for the protection of the interests of the Employer, its stockholders, directors, officers and employees and that the Employer would not have entered into this Agreement in the absence of such restrictions and that any violation of any provisions of Paragraphs 5 through 8 will result in irreparable injury to the Employer. Employee further represents and acknowledges that (i) Employee has been advised by the Employer to consult his/her counsel prior to execution and delivery of this Agreement, and (ii) that the Employee has had full opportunity, prior to execution and delivery of this Agreement, to review thoroughly this Agreement with his/her counsel.Employee further understands and agrees that the Employer shall be entitled to preliminary and permanent injunctive relief, without the necessity of proving actual damages, as well as an equitable accounting of all earnings, profits and other benefit, arising from any violation of Paragraphs 5 through 8, whic |
b. | To the extent any portion of any provision of this Agreement is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the language shall be construed by limiting and/or reducing it so as to be enforceable to the extent compatible with applicable law. All remaining provisions and/or portions thereof shall remain in full force and effect. |
10. | Binding Effect. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by, Employer and its successors and assigns, and shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of and be enforceable by the Employee and his or her estate, heirs, administrators and legal representatives. This Agreement is not assignable by Employee but is assignable by Employer to any successor to all, or substantially all, of its Business, assets or other reorganization to which it may become a party, provided that, such assignee assumes all of the obligations of the Employer hereunder. |
11. | Entire Agreement and Amendment. |
12. | Governing Law, Consent to Jurisdiction. This Agreement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New Jersey, without regard to its conflicts of law provisions.Any claim arising out of, or relating to this Agreement including, without limitation, any action commenced by Employer for preliminary and permanent injunctive relief or other equitable relief, shall be instituted in state court in the State of New Jersey, and each party agrees not to assert by way of motion, as a defense or otherwise, in any such claim, that it is not subject personally to the jurisdiction of such court, that the claim is brought in an inconvenient forum, that the venue of the claim is improper or that this Agreement or the subject matter, hereof may not be enforced in or by such court. Each party further irrevocably submits to the exclusive jurisdiction of such court in any such claim. |
13. | Usage. All pronouns and any variations thereof referred to in the masculine, feminine or neuter, singular or plural, as the context may require. All terms defined in the Agreement in their singular or plural forms have correlative meanings when used herein in their singular or plural forms, respectively. Unless otherwise expressly provided the words “include” “includes” and “including” do not limit the preceding words or terms and shall be deemed followed by the words “without limitation”. |
14. | Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for reference only, and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement. |
15. | Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all such counterparts, together shall constitute one, and the same, instrument. Each counterpart may consist of a member of copies hereof each signed by less than all, but together signed by all of the parties hereto. |
Employee | PDI, Inc | ||
/s/ Graham Miao | By: | /s/ Jennifer Leonard | |
Graham Miao | Name: | Jennifer Leonard | |
Title: | SVP, Human Resources and IT | ||
Dated: 10/14/14 | Dated: | 10/14/14 | |