-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, LOT/+3g96BnX1haijVR6AiJ97nJcyknWMEZmiCkL2jvbCewB92S7SLFsJ5/j6gyu +qqq47JDlHYnkE9/k1KD1Q== 0001193125-07-166413.txt : 20070731 0001193125-07-166413.hdr.sgml : 20070731 20070731134454 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-07-166413 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 7 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20070726 ITEM INFORMATION: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement ITEM INFORMATION: Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events ITEM INFORMATION: Financial Statements and Exhibits FILED AS OF DATE: 20070731 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20070731 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: KVH INDUSTRIES INC \DE\ CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001007587 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: RADIO & TV BROADCASTING & COMMUNICATIONS EQUIPMENT [3663] IRS NUMBER: 050420589 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 000-28082 FILM NUMBER: 071012111 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 50 ENTERPRISE CENTER CITY: MIDDLETOWN STATE: RI ZIP: 02842 BUSINESS PHONE: 4018473327 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 50 ENTERPRISE CENTER CITY: MIDDLETOWN STATE: RI ZIP: 02842 8-K 1 d8k.htm FORM 8-K Form 8-K

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 


FORM 8-K

 


CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): July 26, 2007

 


KVH Industries, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 


 

Delaware   0-28082

(State or Other Jurisdiction

of Incorporation)

  (Commission File Number)

05-0420589

(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

50 Enterprise Center

Middletown, RI

  02842
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (401) 847-3327

 

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

 


Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

 

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 



ITEM 1.01. ENTRY INTO A MATERIAL DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT

Amendment to Stock Option Plans

On July 26, 2007, the Board of Directors of KVH Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) approved a new policy regarding the tendering of previously issued, outstanding shares as payment of the exercise price of options and amendments (the “Amendments”) to the Company’s 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (as amended from time to time, the “2006 Plan”), 2003 Incentive and Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan (as amended from time to time, the “2003 Plan”) and 1996 Incentive and Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan (as amended from time to time, the “1996 Plan”) reflecting the same.

The new policy which is reflected in the Amendments provides that an optionholder can tender previously issued, outstanding shares as payment of the exercise price of options subject to the following conditions:

 

  (1) at the time the optionholder submits the outstanding shares of Stock as payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised, the optionholder shall have provided the Company with a letter stating that (a) the optionholder does not know of any material, non-public information concerning the Company, and (b) the Company is not currently in a “blackout” period; and

 

  (2) the transaction shall have been approved by the President of the Company or its corporate counsel on the date on which the outstanding shares of Stock are tendered as payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised.

Each of the 2006 Plan, 2003 Plan and 1996 Plan was also amended to add certain provisions regarding uncertificated shares and delivery of shares. Full and complete copies of the 2006 Plan, 2003 Plan and 1996 Plan are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, respectively, and incorporated herein by reference.

This summary of the terms of the Amendments is qualified in its entirety by the amended 2006 Plan, 2003 Plan and 1996 Plan filed herewith as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 respectively.

 

ITEM 5.03. AMENDMENT TO ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION OR BYLAWS; CHANGE IN FISCAL YEAR.

On July 26, 2007, the Board of Directors of the Company passed a resolution to permit the issuance of the Company’s stock in uncertificated form in accordance with NASDAQ Rule 4350(l), which requires securities listed on NASDAQ to be eligible for a Direct Registration Program operated by a clearing agency registered under Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on and after January 1, 2008. This resolution is prospective only, such that any issued and outstanding certificated shares will not become uncertificated until the certificate is surrendered to the Company or its transfer agent or is reported to the Company by the holder as being lost, stolen or destroyed. In connection with this resolution, the Board of Directors amended the Company’s Bylaws to provide for uncertificated shares and to make other conforming changes reflecting the Company’s intention. The ByLaws also provide that a holder of uncertificated shares may request a stock certificate at any time. A copy of the Amended, Restated and Corrected Bylaws, amended as set forth above, is attached hereto as Exhibit 3 and incorporated by reference herein.


ITEM 8.01 OTHER EVENTS

Settlement Agreements

The Company announced in a press release on July 27, 2007, that it has reached definitive agreements to settle securities class action claims filed in federal court against the Company and certain of its officers in 2004 on behalf of a class of KVH shareholders, as well as two related derivative lawsuits filed by KVH shareholders against certain of KVH’s directors and officers. Pursuant to the terms of the settlements, plaintiffs and their attorneys will receive an aggregate cash payment of $5.3 million, all of which will be paid by KVH’s insurance carrier. KVH also agreed to adopt, formalize, or reconfirm adherence to certain corporate governance policies and practices. The settlements are subject to notice to shareholders and approval by the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Superior Court.

A copy of the Company’s press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1. The press release is incorporated by reference herein and the foregoing description of the press release is qualified in its entirety by reference to the attached exhibit.

Approval of Share Repurchase Plan

The Company announced in a press release on July 30, 2007, that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program pursuant to which the Company may purchase up to 1 million shares, or approximately 6.7% of the Company’s outstanding common stock. Under the program, the Company, at management’s discretion, may repurchase shares on the open market from time to time, in privately negotiated transactions or block transactions, or through an accelerated repurchase agreement. The timing of such repurchases will depend on availability of shares, price, market conditions, alternative uses of capital, and applicable regulatory requirements. The program may be modified, suspended or terminated at any time without prior notice.

A copy of the Company’s press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2. The press release is incorporated by reference herein and the foregoing description of the press release is qualified in its entirety by reference to the attached exhibit.

 

ITEM 9.01. FINANCIAL STATEMENT AND EXHIBITS

 

(d) Exhibits

 

Exhibit
Number

  

Description

  3

   Amended, Restated and Corrected Bylaws of KVH Industries, Inc.

10.1

   Amended and Restated 2006 Stock Incentive Plan

10.2

   Amended and Restated 2003 Incentive and Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan

10.3

   Amended and Restated 1996 Incentive and Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan

99.1

   Press Release relating to Settlement Agreements dated July 27, 2007

99.2

   Press Release relating to Approval of Shares Repurchase Plan dated July 30, 2007


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: July 31, 2007     KVH INDUSTRIES, INC.
    By:  

/s/ Patrick J. Spratt

      Patrick J. Spratt
      Chief Financial Officer
EX-3 2 dex3.htm AMENDED, RESTATED AND CORRECTED BYLAWS OF KVH INDUSTRIES, INC. AMENDED, RESTATED AND CORRECTED BYLAWS OF KVH INDUSTRIES, INC.

Exhibit 3

AMENDED, RESTATED AND CORRECTED BY-LAWS

OF

KVH INDUSTRIES, INC.

(As amended February 1, 1996 and May 23, 2001, corrected on January 16, 2004, and amended on July 26, 2007)

Section 1. CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION AND BY-LAWS

1.1 These by-laws are subject to the certificate of incorporation of the corporation. In these by-laws, references to the certificate of incorporation and by-laws mean the provisions of the certificate of incorporation and the by-laws as are from time to time in effect.

Section 2. OFFICES

2.1 Registered Office. The registered office shall be in the city of Wilmington, county of New Castle, state of Delaware.

2.2 Other Offices. The corporation may also have offices at such other places both within and without the state of Delaware as the board of directors may from time to time determine or the business of the corporation may require.

Section 3. STOCKHOLDERS

3.1 Location of Meetings. All meetings of the stockholders shall be held at such place either within or without the state of Delaware as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors. Any adjourned session of any meeting shall be held at the place designated in the vote of adjournment.

3.2 Annual Meeting. The annual meeting of stockholders shall be held at 10:00 a.m. on the first Wednesday in May in each year (unless that day be a legal holiday at the place where the meeting is to be held, in which case the meeting shall be held at the same hour on the next succeeding day not a legal holiday) (the “Specified Date”), or at such other date and time as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors, at which the stockholders shall elect a board of directors and transact such other business as may be required by law or these by-laws or as may properly come before the meeting.

3.3 Special Annual Meeting in Place of Annual Meeting. If the election for directors shall not be held on the day designated by these by-laws, the directors shall cause the election to be held as soon thereafter as convenient, and to that end, if the annual meeting is omitted on the day herein provided therefor or if the election of directors shall not be held thereat, a special meeting of the stockholders may be held in place of such omitted meeting or election, and any business transacted or election held at such special meeting shall have the same effect as if transacted or held at the annual meeting, and in such case all references in these by-laws to the annual meeting of the stockholders, or to the annual election of directors, shall be deemed to

 


refer to or include such special meeting. Any such special meeting shall be called and the purposes thereof shall be specified in the call, as provided in Section 3.4.

3.4 Notice of Annual Meeting. Written notice of the annual meeting stating the place, date and hour of the meeting shall be given to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting. Such notice may specify the business to be transacted and actions to be taken at such meeting. No action shall be taken at such meeting unless such notice is given, or unless waiver of such notice is given by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes necessary to take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were voted. Prompt notice of all action taken in connection with such waiver of notice shall be given to all stockholders not present or represented at such meeting.

3.5 Other Special Meetings. Special meetings of the stockholders, for any purpose or purposes, unless otherwise prescribed by law or by the certificate of incorporation, may be called by the president and shall be called by the president or secretary at the request in writing of a majority of the board of directors. Such request shall state the purpose or purposes of the proposed meeting and business to be transacted at any special meeting of the stockholders. Business transacted at any special meeting of stockholders shall be limited to matters relating to the purpose or purposes stated in the notice of meeting.

3.6 Notice of Special Meeting. Written notice of a special meeting stating the place, date and hour of the meeting and the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, shall be given not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the date of the meeting, to each stockholder entitled to vote at such meeting. No action shall be taken at such meeting unless such notice is given, or unless waiver of such notice is given by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes necessary to take such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon were voted. Prompt notice of all action taken in connection with such waiver of notice shall be given to all stockholders not present or represented at such meeting.

3.7 Notice of Stockholder Business at Annual Meeting. The following provisions of this Section 3.7 shall apply to the conduct of business at any annual meeting of the stockholders. (As used in this Section 3.7, the term annual meeting shall include a special meeting in lieu of an annual meeting.)

(a) At any annual meeting of the stockholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been brought before the meeting (i) pursuant to the corporation’s notice of meeting, (ii) by or at the direction of the board of directors or (iii) by any stockholder of the corporation who is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of the notice provided for in paragraph (b) of this Section 3.7, who shall be entitled to vote at such meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section 3.7.

(b) For business to be properly brought before any annual meeting of the stockholders by a stockholder pursuant to clause (iii) of paragraph (a) of this Section 3.7, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice must be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive

 

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offices of the corporation not less than sixty (60) days prior to the date for such annual meeting, regardless of any postponements, deferrals or adjournments of that meeting to a later date; provided, however, that if the annual meeting of stockholders is to be held on a date prior to the Specified Date, and if less than seventy (70) days’ notice or prior public disclosure of the date of such annual or special meeting is given or made, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered or received not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the earlier of the date on which notice of the date of such meeting was mailed or the day on which public disclosure was made of the date of such meeting. A stockholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth as to each matter the stockholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting (i) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the meeting and the reasons for conducting such business at the meeting, (ii) the name and address, as they appear on the corporation’s books, of the stockholder proposing such business, the name and address of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, and the name and address of any other stockholders or beneficial owners known by such stockholder to be supporting such proposal, (iii) the class and number of shares of the corporation which are owned beneficially and of record by such stockholder of record, by the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made and by any other stockholders or beneficial owners known by such stockholder to be supporting such proposal, and (iv) any material interest of such stockholder of record and/or of the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is made, in such proposed business and any material interest of any other stockholders or beneficial owners known by such stockholder to be supporting such proposal in such proposed business, to the extent known by such stockholder.

(c) Notwithstanding anything in these by-laws to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at an annual meeting except in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 3.7. The person presiding at the annual meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that business was not properly brought before the meeting and in accordance with the procedures prescribed by these by-laws, and if he should so determine, he shall so declare at the meeting and any such business not properly brought before the meeting shall not be transacted. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.7, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (or any successor provision), and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 3.7.

(d) This provision shall not prevent the consideration and approval or disapproval at an annual meeting of reports of officers, Directors and committees of the board of directors, but, in connection with such reports, no new business shall be acted upon at such meeting unless properly brought before the meeting as herein provided.

3.8 Stockholder List. The officer who has charge of the stock ledger of the corporation shall prepare and make, at least ten days before every meeting of stockholders, a complete list of the stockholders entitled to vote at the meeting, arranged in alphabetical order, and showing the address of each stockholder and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. Such list shall be open to the examination of any stockholder, for any purpose germane to the meeting, during ordinary business hours, for a period of at least ten days prior to the meeting, either at a place within the city where the meeting is to be held, which place shall be specified in the notice of the meeting, or, if not so specified, at the place where the meeting is to

 

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be held. The list shall also be produced and kept at the time and place of the meeting during the whole time thereof, and may be inspected by any stockholder who is present.

3.9 Quorum of Stockholders. The holders of a majority of the stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum at all meetings of the stockholders for the transaction of business except as otherwise required by law, or by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws. Except as otherwise provided by law, no stockholder present at a meeting may withhold his shares from the quorum count by declaring his shares absent from the meeting.

3.10 Adjournment. Any meeting of stockholders may be adjourned from time to time to any other time and to any other place at which a meeting of stockholders may be held under these by-laws, which time and place shall be announced at the meeting, by a majority of votes cast upon the question, whether or not a quorum is present. At such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present or represented any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than thirty days, or if after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for the adjourned meeting, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each stockholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting.

3.11 Proxy Representation. Every stockholder may authorize another person or persons to act for him by proxy in all matters in which a stockholder is entitled to participate, whether by waiving notice of any meeting, objecting to or voting or participating at a meeting, or expressing consent or dissent without a meeting. Every proxy must be signed by the stockholder or by his attorney-in-fact. No proxy shall be voted or acted upon after three years from its date unless such proxy provides for a longer period. Except as provided by law, a revocable proxy shall be deemed revoked if the stockholder is present at the meeting for which the proxy was given. A duly executed proxy shall be irrevocable if it states that it is irrevocable and, if, and only as long as, it is coupled with an interest sufficient in law to support an irrevocable power. A proxy may be made irrevocable regardless of whether the interest with which it is coupled is an interest in the stock itself or an interest in the corporation generally. The authorization of a proxy may but need not be limited to specified action, provided, however, that if a proxy limits its authorization to a meeting or meetings of stockholders, unless otherwise specifically provided such proxy shall entitle the holder thereof to vote at any adjourned session but shall not be valid after the final adjournment thereof.

3.12 Inspectors. The directors or the person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors of election and any substitute inspectors to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. Each inspector, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, shall take and sign an oath faithfully to execute the duties of inspector at such meeting with strict impartiality and according to the best of his ability. The inspectors, if any, shall determine the number of shares of stock outstanding and the voting power of each, the shares of stock represented at the meeting, the existence of a quorum and the validity and effect of proxies, and shall receive votes, ballots or consents, hear and determine all challenges and questions arising in connection with the right to vote, count and tabulate all votes, ballots or consents, determine the result, and do such acts as are proper to conduct the election or vote with fairness to all stockholders. On request of the person presiding at the meeting, the inspectors shall make a

 

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report in writing of any challenge, question or matter determined by them and execute a certificate of any fact found by them.

3.13 Action by Vote. When a quorum is present at any meeting, whether the same be an original or an adjourned session, a plurality of the votes properly cast for election to any office shall elect to such office and a majority of the votes properly cast upon any question other than an election to an office shall decide the question, except when a larger vote is required by law, by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws. No ballot shall be required for any election unless requested by a stockholder present or represented at the meeting and entitled to vote in the election.

3.14 No Action by Consent. Any action required or permitted to be taken by the stockholders of the corporation must be effected at a duly constituted annual or special meeting of such stockholders and may not be effected by any consent in writing by such stockholders.

Section 4. DIRECTORS

4.1 Number. The number of directors which shall constitute the whole board shall not be less than three nor more than seven. Within the foregoing limits, the number of directors shall be determined by resolution of the board of directors and may be increased or decreased at any time or from time to time by the directors by vote of a majority of directors then in office, except that any such decrease by vote of the directors shall only be made to eliminate vacancies existing by reason of the death, resignation or removal of one or more directors. The directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of the stockholders, except as provided in Section 4.7 of these by-laws. Directors need not be stockholders.

4.2 Tenure. Except as otherwise provided by law, by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws, each director shall hold office until the next annual meeting and until his successor is elected and qualified, or until he sooner dies, resigns, is removed or becomes disqualified.

4.3 Classes of Directors. The board of directors shall be and is divided into three classes: Class I, Class II and Class III. No one class shall have more than one director more than any other class. If a fraction is contained in the quotient arrived at by dividing the designated number of directors by three, then, if such fraction is one-third, the extra director shall be a member of Class III, and if such fraction is two-thirds, one of the extra directors shall be a member of Class II and one of the extra directors shall be a member of Class III, unless otherwise provided from time to time by resolution adopted by the board of directors.

4.4 Terms of Office. Each director shall serve for a term ending on the date of the third annual meeting following the annual meeting at which such director was elected; provided, that each initial director in Class I shall serve for a term ending on the date of the annual meeting in 1997; each initial director in Class II shall serve for a term ending on the date of the annual meeting in 1998; and each initial director in Class III shall serve for a term ending on the date of the annual meeting in 1999; and provided further, that the term of each director shall be subject to the election and qualification of his successor and to his earlier death, resignation or removal.

 

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4.5 Allocation of Directors Among Classes in the Event of Increases or Decreases in the Number of Directors. In the event of any increase or decrease in the authorized number of directors, (i) each director then serving as such shall nevertheless continue as a director of the class of which he is a member and (ii) the newly created or eliminated directorships resulting from such increase or decrease shall be apportioned by the board of directors among the three classes of directors so as to ensue that no one class has more than one director more than any other class. To the extent possible, consistent with the foregoing rule, any newly created directorships shall be added to those classes whose terms of office are to expire at the latest dates following such allocation, and any newly eliminated directorships shall be subtracted from those classes whose terms of offices are to expire at the earliest dates following such allocation, unless otherwise provided from time to time by resolution adopted by the board of directors.

4.6 Powers. The business of the corporation shall be managed by or under the direction of the board of directors which shall have and may exercise all the powers of the corporation and do all such lawful acts and things as are not by law, the certificate of incorporation or these by-laws directed or required to be exercised or done by the stockholders.

4.7 Vacancies. Any vacancy in the board of directors, however occurring, including a vacancy resulting from an enlargement of the board, shall be filled only by a vote of a majority of the directors then in office, although less than a quorum, or by a sole remaining director. A director elected to fill a vacancy shall be elected to hold office until the next election of the class for which such director shall have been chosen, subject to the election and qualification of his successor and to his earlier death, resignation or removal. The directors shall have and may exercise all their powers notwithstanding the existence of one or more vacancies in their number, subject to any requirements of law or of the certificate of incorporation or of these by-laws as to the number of directors required for a quorum or for any vote or other actions.

4.8 Nomination of Directors.

The following provisions of this Section 4.8 shall apply to the nomination of persons for election to the board of directors.

(a) Nominations of persons for election to the board of directors of the corporation may be made (i) by or at the direction of the board of directors or (ii) by any stockholder of the corporation who is a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for in paragraph (b) of this Section 4.8, who shall be entitled to vote for the election of Directors at the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section 4.8.

(b) Nominations by stockholders shall be made pursuant to timely notice in writing to the Secretary of the corporation. To be timely, a stockholder’s notice shall be delivered to or mailed and received at the principal executive offices of the corporation, not less than sixty (60) days prior to the date for the annual meeting, regardless of any postponements, deferrals or adjournments of that meeting to a later date; provided, however, that if the annual meeting of stockholders or a special meeting in lieu thereof is to be held on a date prior to the Specified Date, and if less than seventy (70) days’ notice or prior public disclosure of the date of such annual or special meeting is given or made, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so

 

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delivered or received not later than the close of business on the tenth (10th) day following the earlier of the day on which notice of the date of such annual or special meeting was mailed or the day on which public disclosure was made of the date of such annual or special meeting. Such stockholder’s notice shall set forth (x) as to each person whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a Director all information relating to such person that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors, or is otherwise required, pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or pursuant to any other then existing statute, rule or regulation applicable thereto (including such person’s written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a Director if elected); (y) as to the stockholder giving the notice (1) the name and address, as they appear on the corporation’s books, of such stockholder and (2) the class and number of shares of the corporation which are beneficially owned by such stockholder and also which are owned of record by such stockholder; and (Z) as to the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination is made, (1) the name and address of such person and (2) the class and number of shares of the corporation which are beneficially owned by such person. The corporation may require any proposed nominee to furnish such other information as may reasonably be required by the corporation to determine the eligibility of such proposed nominee as a Director. At the request of the board of directors, any person nominated by the board of directors for election as a Director shall furnish to the Secretary of the corporation that information required to be set forth in a stockholder’s notice of nomination which pertains to the nominee.

(c) No person shall be eligible to serve as a Director of the corporation unless nominated in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Section 4.8. The person presiding at the meeting shall, if the facts warrant, determine that a nomination was not made in accordance with the procedures prescribed by these by-laws, and if he should so determine, he shall so declare to the meeting and the defective nomination shall be disregarded. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 4.8, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (or any successor provision), and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this by-law.

4.9 Committees. The board of directors may, by vote of a majority of the whole board, (a) designate, change the membership of or terminate the existence of any committee or committees, each committee to consist of one or more of the directors; (b) designate one or more directors as alternate members of any such committee who may replace any absent or disqualified member at any meeting of the committee; and (c) determine the extent to which each such committee shall have and may exercise the powers and authority of the board of directors in the management of the business and affairs of the corporation, including the power to authorize the seal of the corporation to be affixed to all papers which require it and the power and authority to declare dividends or to authorize the issuance of stock; excepting, however, such powers which by law, by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws they are prohibited from so delegating. In the absence or disqualification of any member of such committee and his alternate, if any, the member or members thereof present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting, whether or not constituting a quorum, may unanimously appoint another member of the board of directors to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified member. Except as the board of directors may otherwise determine, any committee may make rules for the conduct of its business, but unless otherwise provided by the board or such rules, its business shall be conducted as nearly as may be in the same manner as is provided by these

 

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bylaws for the conduct of business by the board of directors. Each committee shall keep regular minutes of its meetings and report the same to the board of directors upon request.

4.10 Regular Meeting. Regular meetings of the board of directors may be held without call or notice at such place within or without the state of Delaware and at such times as the board may from time to time determine, provided that notice of the first regular meeting following any such determination shall be given to absent directors. A regular meeting of the directors may be held without call or notice immediately after and at the same place as the annual meeting of the stockholders.

4.11 Special Meetings. Special meetings of the board of directors may be held at any time and at any place within or without the state of Delaware designated in the notice of the meeting, when called by the chairman, the president or by one third or more in number of the directors, reasonable notice thereof being given to each director by the secretary, the chairman, the president or by any one of the directors calling the meeting.

4.12 Notice. It shall be reasonable and sufficient notice to a director to send notice by mail at least forty-eight hours or by telegram at least twenty-four hours before the meeting, addressed to him at his usual or last known business or residence address or to give notice to him in person or by telephone at least twenty-four hours before the meeting. Notice of a meeting need not be given to any director if a written waiver of notice, executed by him before or after the meeting, is filed with the records of the meeting, or to any director who attends the meeting without protesting prior thereto or at its commencement the lack of notice to him. Neither notice of a meeting nor a waiver of a notice need specify the purposes of the meeting.

4.13 Quorum. A majority of the directors at any time in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In the event one or more of the directors shall be disqualified to vote at any meeting, then the required quorum shall be reduced by one for each director so disqualified, provided that in no case shall less than one-third of the number of directors fixed pursuant to Section 1 above constitute a quorum. If at any meeting of the board of directors there shall be less than such a quorum, a majority of those present may adjourn the meeting from time to time.

4.14 Action by Vote. Every act or decision done or made by a majority of the directors present at a meeting duly held at which a quorum is present shall be regarded as the act of the board of directors unless a greater number is required by law, by these by-laws or by the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the corporation.

4.15 Action Without a Meeting. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these by-laws, any action required or permitted to be taken at any meeting of the board of directors or of any committee thereof may be taken without a meeting if all the members of the board or of such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing, and such writing or writings are filed with the records of the meetings of the board or of such committee. Such consent shall be treated for all purposes as the act of the board or of such committee, as the case may be.

 

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4.16 Participation in Meetings by Conference Telephone. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these by-laws, members of the board of directors or of any committee thereof, may participate in a meeting of such board or committee by means of conference telephone or similar communications equipment by means of which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other. Such participation shall constitute presence in person at such meeting.

4.17 Compensation. Unless otherwise restricted by the certificate of incorporation or these by-laws, the board of directors shall have the authority to fix from time to time the compensation of directors. The directors may be paid their expenses, if any, of attendance at each meeting of the board of directors and the performance of their responsibilities as directors and may be paid a fixed sum for attendance at each meeting of the board of directors and/or a stated salary as director. No such payment shall preclude any director from serving the corporation or its parent or subsidiary corporations in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor. The board of directors may also allow compensation for members of special or standing committees for service on such committees.

4.18 Interested Directors and Officers.

(a) No contract or transaction between the corporation and one or more of its directors or officers, or between the corporation and any other corporation, partnership, association, or other organization in which one or more of the corporation’s directors or officers are directors or officers, or have a financial interest, shall be void or voidable solely for this reason, or solely because the director or officer is present at or participates in the meeting of the board or committee thereof which authorizes the contract or transaction, or solely because his or their votes are counted for such purpose, if:

(1) The material facts as to his relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the board of directors or the committee, and the board or committee in good faith authorizes the contract or transaction by the affirmative votes of a majority of the disinterested directors, even though the disinterested directors be less than a quorum; or

(2) The material facts as to his relationship or interest and as to the contract or transaction are disclosed or are known to the stockholders entitled to vote thereon, and the contract or transaction is specifically approved in good faith by vote of the stockholders; or

(3) The contract or transaction is fair as to the corporation as of the time it is authorized, approved or ratified, by the board of directors, a committee thereof, or the stockholders.

(b) Common or interested directors may be counted in determining the presence of a quorum at a meeting of the board of directors or of a committee which authorizes the contract or transaction.

 

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4.19 Resignation or Removal of Directors. Directors of the corporation may be removed only for cause by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least two-thirds of the shares of the capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote. Any director may resign at any time by delivering his resignation in writing to the chairman, the president or the secretary or to a meeting of the board of directors. Such resignation shall be effective upon receipt unless specified to be effective at some other time; and without in either case the necessity of its being accepted unless the resignation shall so state. No director resigning and (except where a right to receive compensation shall be expressly provided in a duly authorized written agreement with the corporation) no director removed shall have any right to receive compensation as such director for any period following his resignation or removal, or any right to damages on account of such removal, whether his compensation be by the month or by the year or otherwise; unless in the case of a resignation, the directors, or in the case of removal, the body acting on the removal, shall in their or its discretion provide for compensation.

Section 5. NOTICES

5.1 Form of Notice. Whenever, under the provisions of law, or of the certificate of incorporation or of these by-laws, notice is required to be given to any director or stockholder, such notice may be given by mail, addressed to such director or stockholder, at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation, with postage thereon prepaid, and such notice shall be deemed to be given at the time when the same shall be deposited in the United States mail. Unless written notice by mail is required by law, written notice may also be given by telegram, cable, telecopy, commercial delivery service, telex or similar means, addressed to such director or stockholder at his address as it appears on the records of the corporation, in which case such notice shall be deemed to be given when delivered into the control of the persons charged with effecting such transmission, the transmission charge to be paid by the corporation or the person sending such notice and not by the addressee. Oral notice or other in-hand delivery (in person or by telephone) shall be deemed given at the time it is actually given.

5.2 Waiver of Notice. Whenever notice is required to be given under the provisions of law, the certificate of incorporation or these by-laws, a written waiver thereof, signed by the person entitled to notice, whether before or after the time stated therein, shall be deemed equivalent to notice. Attendance of a person at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the person attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Neither the business to be transacted at, nor the purpose of, any meeting of the stockholders, directors or members of a committee of the directors need be specified in any written waiver of notice.

Section 6. OFFICERS AND AGENTS

6.1 Enumeration: Qualification. The officers of the corporation shall be a chairman, a president, a treasurer, a chief financial officer, a secretary and such other officers, if any, as the board of directors from time to time may in its discretion elect or appoint including without limitation one or more vice presidents. Any officer may be, but none need be, a director or stockholder. Any two or more offices may be held by the same person. Any officer may be required by the board of directors to secure the faithful performance of his duties to the

 

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corporation by giving bond in such amount and with sureties or otherwise as the board of directors may determine.

6.2 Powers. Subject to law, to the certificate of incorporation and to the other provisions of these by-laws, each officer shall have, in addition to the duties and powers herein set forth, such duties and powers as are commonly incident to his office and such additional duties and powers as the board of directors may from time to time designate.

6.3 Election. The board of directors at its first meeting after each annual meeting of stockholders shall choose a president, a secretary, a treasurer and, from one of its number, a chairman. Other officers may be appointed by the board of directors at such meeting, at any other meeting or by written consent. At any time or from time to time, the directors may delegate to any officer their power to elect or appoint any other officer or any agents.

6.4 Tenure. Each officer shall hold office until the first meeting of the board of directors following the next annual meeting of the stockholders and until his successor is elected and qualified unless a shorter period shall have been specified in terms of his election or appointment, or in each case until he sooner dies, resigns is removed or becomes disqualified. Each agent of the corporation shall retain his authority at the pleasure of the directors, or the officer by whom he was appointed or by the officer who then holds agent appointive power.

6.5 President and Vice Presidents; Chairman. The president shall be the chief executive officer and shall have general supervision of the entire business of the corporation, subject to the control of the board of directors, and shall have such other duties and powers as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors.

The chairman shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders, except as otherwise voted by the board of directors. In the absence of the chairman, the president shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders, except as otherwise voted by the board of directors.

The president or treasurer shall execute bonds, mortgages and other contracts requiring a seal, under the seal of the corporation, except where required or permitted by law to be otherwise signed and executed and except where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the board of directors to some other officer or agent of the corporation.

Any vice presidents shall have such duties and powers as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors or the president.

6.6 Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Assistant Treasurers. The chief financial officer shall be the principal financial officer of the corporation and shall be responsible for the corporation’s financial reports. The treasurer shall be in charge of its funds and shall be in charge of the corporation’s valuable papers, and shall have such other duties and powers as may be assigned to such officer from time to time by the board of directors or the president.

Any assistant treasurers shall have such duties and powers as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors, the president or the treasurer.

 

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6.7 Secretary and Assistant Secretaries. The secretary shall record all proceedings of the stockholders, of the board of directors and of committees of the board of directors in a book or series of books to be kept therefor and shall file therein all writings of, or related to, action by stockholder or director consent. In the absence of the secretary from any meeting, an assistant secretary, or if there be none or he is absent, a temporary secretary chosen at the meeting, shall record the proceedings thereof. Unless a transfer agent has been appointed, the secretary shall keep or cause to be kept the stock and transfer records of the corporation, which shall contain the names and record addresses of all stockholders and the number of shares registered in the name of each stockholder. He shall have such other duties and powers as may from time to time be designated by the board of directors or the president.

Any assistant secretaries shall have such duties and powers as shall be designated from time to time by the board of directors, the president or the secretary.

6.8 Resignation and Removal. Any officer may resign at any time by delivering his resignation in writing to the chairman, the president or the secretary or to a meeting of the board of directors. Such resignation shall be effective upon receipt unless specified to be effective at some other time, and without in any case the necessity of its being accepted unless the resignation shall so state. The board of directors may at any time remove any officer either with or without cause. The board of directors may at any time terminate or modify the authority of any agent. No officer resigning and (except where a right to receive compensation shall be expressly provided in a duly authorized written agreement with the corporation) no officer removed shall have any right to any compensation as such officer for any period following his resignation or removal, or any right to damages on account of such removal, whether his compensation be by the month or by the year or otherwise; unless in the case of a resignation, the directors, or in the case of removal, the body acting on the removal, shall in their or its discretion provide for compensation.

6.9 Vacancies. If the office of the chairman or the president or the treasurer or the secretary becomes vacant, the directors may elect a successor by vote of a majority of the directors then in office. If the office of any other officer becomes vacant, any person or body empowered to elect or appoint that office may choose a successor. Each such successor shall hold office for the unexpired term of his predecessor, and in the case of the chairman, the president, the treasurer and the secretary until his successor is chosen and qualified, or in each case until he sooner dies, resigns, is removed or becomes disqualified.

Section 7. CAPITAL STOCK

7.1 Stock Certificates. The shares of the corporation’s stock shall either be represented by certificates or shall be uncertificated. In the event that shares of the corporation’s stock are represented by certificates, such certificates shall be in such form as shall, in conformity to law, the certificate of incorporation and the by-laws, be prescribed from time to time by the board of directors. Each stockholder, upon written request to the transfer agent or registrar of the Corporation, shall be entitled to a certificate stating the number and the class and the designation of the series, if any, of the shares held by him. Such certificates shall be signed by the president or a vice-president and (i) the treasurer or an assistant treasurer or (ii) the secretary or an assistant secretary. Any of or all the signatures on the certificate may be a

 

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facsimile. In case an officer, transfer agent, or registrar who has signed or whose facsimile signature has been placed on such certificate shall have ceased to be such officer, transfer agent, or registrar before such certificate is issued, it may be issued by the corporation with the same effect as if he were such officer, transfer agent, or registrar at the time of its issue. There shall be no differences in the rights and obligations of the stockholders based on whether or not their shares are represented by certificates.

7.2 Lost Certificates. The board of directors may direct a new certificate or certificates to be issued in place of any certificate or certificates theretofore issued by the corporation alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed, upon the making of an affidavit of that fact by the person claiming the certificate of stock to be lost, stolen or destroyed. When authorizing such issue of a new certificate or certificates, the board of directors may, in its discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or certificates, or his legal representative, to advertise the same in such manner as it shall require and/or to give the corporation a bond in such sum as it may direct as indemnity against any claim that may be made against the corporation with respect to the certificate alleged to have been lost, stolen or destroyed.

Section 8. TRANSFER OF SHARES OF STOCK

8.1 Transfer on Books. Subject to any restrictions with respect to the transfer of shares of stock, (a) shares of stock represented by certificates may be transferred on the books of the corporation by the surrender to the corporation or its transfer agent of the certificate therefor properly endorsed or accompanied by a written assignment and power of attorney properly executed, with necessary transfer stamps affixed, and with such proof of the authenticity of signature as the board of directors or the transfer agent of the corporation may reasonably require and (b) uncertificated shares may be transferred by the registered holder thereof or by such holder’s attorney thereunto authorized by power of attorney duly executed and filed with the secretary of the corporation. Except as may be otherwise required by law, by the certificate of incorporation or by these by-laws, the corporation shall be entitled to treat the record holder of stock as shown on its books as the owner of such stock for all purposes, including the payment of dividends and the right to receive notice and to vote or to give any consent with respect thereto and to be held liable for such calls and assessments, if any, as may lawfully be made thereon, regardless of any transfer, pledge or other disposition of such stock until the shares have been properly transferred on the books of the corporation.

It shall be the duty of each stockholder to notify the corporation of his post office address.

Section 9. GENERAL PROVISIONS

9.1 Record Date. In order that the corporation may determine the stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or any adjournment thereof, or to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of stock or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the board of directors may fix, in advance, a record date, which shall not be more than

 

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sixty days nor less than ten days before the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action to which such record date relates. A determination of stockholders of record entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall apply to any adjournment of the meeting; provided, however, that the board of directors may fix a new record date for the adjourned meeting. If no record date is fixed,

(a) The record date for determining stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at a meeting of stockholders shall be at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which notice is given, or, if notice is waived, at the close of business on the day next preceding the day on which the meeting is held;

(b) The record date for determining stockholders entitled to express consent to corporate action in writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the board of directors is necessary, shall be the day on which the first written consent is expressed; and

(c) The record date for determining stockholders for any other purpose shall be at the close of business on the day on which the board of directors adopts the resolution relating to such purpose.

9.2 Dividends. Dividends upon the capital stock of the corporation may be declared by the board of directors at any regular or special meeting or by written consent, pursuant to law. Dividends may be paid in cash, in property, or in shares of the capital stock, subject to the provisions of the certificate of incorporation.

9.3 Payment of Dividends. Before payment of any dividend, there may be set aside out of any funds of the corporation available for dividends such sum or sums as the directors from time to time, in their absolute discretion, think proper as a reserve or reserves to meet contingencies, or for equalizing dividends, or for repairing or maintaining any property of the corporation, or for such other purpose as the directors shall think conducive to the interest of the corporation, and the directors may modify or abolish any such reserve in the manner in which it was created.

9.4 Checks. All checks or demands for money and notes of the corporation shall be signed by such officer or officers or such other person or persons as the board of directors may from time to time designate.

9.5 Fiscal year. The fiscal year of the corporation shall begin on the first day of January in each year and shall end on the last day of December next following, unless otherwise determined by the board of directors.

9.6 Seal. The board of directors may, by resolution, adopt a corporate seal. The corporate seal shall have inscribed thereon the name of the corporation, the year of its organization and the word “Delaware.” The seal may be used by causing it or a facsimile thereof to be impressed or affixed or reproduced or otherwise. The seal may be altered from time to time by the board of directors.

 

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Section 10. INDEMNIFICATION

10.1 It being the intent of the corporation to provide maximum protection available under the law to its officers, directors, employees and agents, the corporation shall indemnify its officers, directors, employees and agents to the full extent the corporation is permitted or required to do so by the General Corporation Law of Delaware.

Section 11. AMENDMENTS

11.1 By the Board of Directors. Except as otherwise provided in Section 12, these by-laws may be altered, amended or repealed or new by-laws may be adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors present at any regular or special meeting of the board of directors at which a quorum is present.

11.2 By the Stockholders. Except as otherwise provided in Section 11.3, these by-laws may be altered, amended or repealed or new by-laws may be adopted by the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares of capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at any regular or special meeting of stockholders, provided notice of such alteration, amendment, repeal or adoption of new by-laws shall have been stated in the notice of such regular or special meeting.

11.3 Certain Limitations. Notwithstanding any other provision of these by-laws, and notwithstanding the fact that a lesser percentage may be specified by law, the affirmative vote of the holders of at least seventy-five percent (75%) of the shares of the capital stock of the corporation issued and outstanding and entitled to vote shall be required to amend or repeal, or to adopt any provision inconsistent with, Section 3.5, Section 3.7, Section 4 or Section 11 of these by-laws.

Section 12. RESTRICTIONS ON SALE OF SECURITIES.1

12.1 Restriction on Sale of Securities. Unless approved by the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the corporation’s capital stock present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of the corporation’s shareholders, the corporation shall not (i) sell or issue any security of the corporation convertible, exercisable or exchangeable into shares of common stock, for a conversion, exercise or exchange price per share which is subject to adjustment based on the market price of the common stock at the time of conversion, exercise or exchange of such security into common stock; or (ii) enter into any equity line or similar agreement or arrangement, or any agreement to sell common stock at a price which is fixed after the date of the agreement, whether or not based on any predetermined price-setting formula or calculation method.

 


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12.2 Amendment. The provisions of Section 12.1 and this Section 12.2 may not be amended or repealed without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of the corporation’s capital stock present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of the corporation’s shareholders.

 

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EX-10.1 3 dex101.htm AMENDED AND RESTATED 2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN AMENDED AND RESTATED 2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

Exhibit 10.1

KVH INDUSTRIES, INC.

AMENDED AND RESTATED 2006 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN

(AS AMENDED ON JULY 26, 2007)

SECTION 1. General Purpose of the Plan; Definitions.

The purpose of this KVH Industries, Inc. 2006 Stock Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) is to encourage and enable officers and employees of, and other persons providing services to, KVH Industries, Inc. (the “Company”) and its Affiliates to acquire a proprietary interest in the Company. It is anticipated that providing such persons with a direct stake in the Company’s welfare will assure a closer identification of their interests with those of the Company and its shareholders, thereby stimulating their efforts on the Company’s behalf and strengthening their desire to remain with the Company.

The following terms shall be defined as set forth below:

“Affiliate” means a parent corporation, if any, and each subsidiary corporation of the Company, as those terms are defined in Section 424 of the Code.

“Award” or “Awards”, except where referring to a particular category of grant under the Plan, shall include Incentive Stock Options, Non-Statutory Stock Options, Restricted Stock Awards and Restricted Stock Units and Other Stock Unit Awards. Awards shall be evidenced by a written agreement (which may be in electronic form and may be electronically acknowledged and accepted by the recipient) containing such terms and conditions not inconsistent with the provisions of this Plan as the Committee shall determine.

“Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

“Cause” shall mean, with respect to any Award holder, a determination by the Company (including the Board) or any Affiliate that the holder’s employment or other relationship with the Company or any such Affiliate should be terminated as a result of (i) a material breach by the Award holder of any agreement to which the Award holder and the Company (or any such Affiliate) are parties, (ii) any act (other than retirement) or omission to act by the Award holder that may have a material and adverse effect on the business of the Company, such Affiliate or any other Affiliate or on the Award holder’s ability to perform services for the Company or any such Affiliate, including, without limitation, the proven or admitted commission of any crime (other than an ordinary traffic violation), or (iii) any material misconduct or material neglect of duties by the Award holder in connection with the business or affairs of the Company or any such Affiliate.

“Change of Control” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 14.


“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any successor Code, and related rules, regulations and interpretations.

“Committee” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.

“Disability” means disability as set forth in Section 22(e)(3) of the Code.

“Effective Date” means the date on which the Plan is approved by the Board of Directors as set forth in Section 16.

“Eligible Person” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.

“Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

“Fair Market Value” on any given date means the closing price per share of the Stock on such date as reported by such registered national securities exchange on which the Stock is listed, or, if the Stock is not listed on such an exchange, as quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System, Inc. (“NASDAQ”); provided, that, if there is no trading on such date, Fair Market Value shall be deemed to be the closing price per share on the last preceding date on which the Stock was traded. If the Stock is not listed on any registered national securities exchange or quoted on NASDAQ, the Fair Market Value of the Stock shall be determined in good faith by the Committee.

“Incentive Stock Option” means any Stock Option designated and qualified as an “incentive stock option” as defined in Section 422 of the Code.

“Non-Employee Director” means any director who: (i) is not currently an officer of the Company or an Affiliate, or otherwise currently employed by the Company or an Affiliate, (ii) does not receive compensation, either directly or indirectly, from the Company or an Affiliate, for services rendered as a consultant or in any capacity other than as a director, except for an amount that does not exceed the dollar amount for which disclosure would be required pursuant to Rule 404(a) of Regulation S-K promulgated by the SEC, (iii) does not possess an interest in any other transaction for which disclosure would be required pursuant to Rule 404(a) of Regulation S-K, and (iv) is not engaged in a business relationship for which disclosure would be required pursuant to Rule 404(b) of Regulation S-K.

“Non-Statutory Stock Option” means any Stock Option that is not an Incentive Stock Option.

“Normal Retirement” means retirement in good standing from active employment with the Company and its Affiliates in accordance with the retirement policies of the Company and its Affiliates then in effect.

“Option” or “Stock Option” means any option to purchase shares of Stock granted pursuant to Section 5.


“Other Stock Unit Award” means an Award granted pursuant to Section 8.

“Outside Director” means any director who (i) is not an employee of the Company or of any “affiliated group,” as such term is defined in Section 1504(a) of the Code, which includes the Company (an “Affiliated Group Member”), (ii) is not a former employee of the Company or any Affiliated Group Member who is receiving compensation for prior services (other than benefits under a tax-qualified retirement plan) during the Company’s or any Affiliated Group Member’s taxable year, (iii) has not been an officer of the Company or any Affiliated Group Member and (iv) does not receive remuneration from the Company or any Affiliated Group Member, either directly or indirectly, in any capacity other than as a director. “Outside Director” shall be determined in accordance with Section 162(m) of the Code and the Treasury regulations issued thereunder.

“Restricted Stock Award” means an Award granted pursuant to Section 7A.

“Restricted Stock Unit” means an Award granted pursuant to Section 7B.

“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor authority.

“Stock” means the common stock, $0.01 par value per share, of the Company, subject to adjustments pursuant to Section 3.

SECTION 2. Administration of Plan; Committee Authority to Select Participants and Determine Awards.

(a) Committee. It is intended that the Plan shall be administered by the Compensation Committee of the Board (the “Committee”), consisting of not less than two (2) persons each of whom qualifies as an Outside Director and a Non-Employee Director, but the authority and validity of any act taken or not taken by the Committee shall not be affected if any person administering the Plan is not an Outside Director or a Non-Employee Director. Except as specifically reserved to the Board under the terms of the Plan, and subject to any limitations set forth in the charter of the Committee, the Committee shall have full and final authority to operate, manage and administer the Plan on behalf of the Company.

(b) Powers of Committee. The Committee shall have the power and authority to grant and modify Awards consistent with the terms of the Plan, including the power and authority:

(i) to select the persons to whom Awards may from time to time be granted;

(ii) to determine the time or times of grant, and the extent, if any, of Incentive Stock Options, Non-Statutory Stock Options, Restricted Stock Awards, Restricted Stock Units, Other Stock Unit Awards, or any combination of the foregoing, granted to any one or more participants;


(iii) to determine the number of shares to be covered by any Award;

(iv) to determine and modify the terms and conditions, including restrictions, not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan, of any Award, which terms and conditions may differ among individual Awards and participants, and to approve the form of written instruments evidencing the Awards; provided, however, that no such action shall adversely affect rights under any outstanding Award without the participant’s consent;

(v) to accelerate the exercisability or vesting of all or any portion of any Award;

(vi) to extend the period in which any outstanding Stock Option may be exercised; and

(vii) to adopt, alter and repeal such rules, guidelines and practices for administration of the Plan and for its own acts and proceedings as it shall deem advisable; to interpret the terms and provisions of the Plan and any Award (including related written instruments); to make all determinations it deems advisable for the administration of the Plan; to decide all disputes arising in connection with the Plan; and to otherwise supervise the administration of the Plan.

All decisions and interpretations of the Committee shall be binding on all persons, including the Company and Plan participants. No member or former member of the Committee or the Board shall be liable for any action or determination made in good faith with respect to this Plan.

SECTION 3. Shares Issuable under the Plan; Mergers; Substitution.

(a) Shares Issuable. The maximum number of shares of Stock which may be issued in respect of Awards granted under the Plan, subject to adjustment upon changes in capitalization of the Company as provided in this Section 3, shall be 1,000,000 shares. For purposes of this limitation, the shares of Stock underlying any Awards which are forfeited, cancelled, reacquired by the Company or otherwise terminated (other than by exercise) shall be added back to the shares of Stock with respect to which Awards may be granted under the Plan. Shares issued under the Plan may be authorized but unissued shares or shares reacquired by the Company.

(b) Share Counting Formula. Solely for the purpose of applying the limitation in Section 3(a), and not for purposes of Section 3(c) below, each Option granted under this Plan shall reduce the number of shares available for grant by one share for every one share granted and each grant of an Award other than an Option under this Plan shall reduce the number of shares available for grant by two shares for every one share granted.

(c) Limitation on Awards. In no event may any Plan participant be granted Awards with respect to more than 120,000 shares of Stock in any calendar year. The


number of shares of Stock relating to an Award granted to a Plan participant in a calendar year that is subsequently forfeited, cancelled or otherwise terminated shall continue to count toward the foregoing limitation in such calendar year. In addition, if the exercise price of an Award is subsequently reduced, the transaction shall be deemed a cancellation of the original Award and the grant of a new one so that both transactions shall count toward the maximum shares issuable in the calendar year of each respective transaction.

(d) Stock Dividends, Mergers, etc. In the event that after approval of the Plan by the stockholders of the Company in accordance with Section 16, the Company effects a stock dividend, stock split or similar change in capitalization affecting the Stock, the Committee shall make appropriate adjustments in (i) the number and kind of shares of stock or securities with respect to which Awards may thereafter be granted (including without limitation the limitations set forth in Sections 3(a) and (b) above), (ii) the number and kind of shares remaining subject to outstanding Awards, and (iii) the option or purchase price in respect of such shares. In the event of any merger, consolidation, dissolution or liquidation of the Company, the Committee in its sole discretion may, as to any outstanding Awards, make such substitution or adjustment in the aggregate number of shares reserved for issuance under the Plan and in the number and purchase price (if any) of shares subject to such Awards as it may determine and as may be permitted by the terms of such transaction, or accelerate, amend or terminate such Awards upon such terms and conditions as it shall provide (which, in the case of the termination of the vested portion of any Award, shall require payment or other consideration which the Committee deems equitable in the circumstances), subject, however, to the provisions of Section 14.

(e) Substitute Awards. The Committee may grant Awards under the Plan in substitution for stock and stock based awards held by employees of another corporation who concurrently become employees of the Company or an Affiliate as the result of a merger or consolidation of the employing corporation with the Company or an Affiliate or the acquisition by the Company or an Affiliate of property or stock of the employing corporation. The Committee may direct that the substitute awards be granted on such terms and conditions as the Committee considers appropriate in the circumstances.

SECTION 4. Eligibility.

Awards may be granted to officers, directors and employees of, and consultants and advisers to, the Company or its Affiliates (“Eligible Persons”).

SECTION 5. Stock Options.

The Committee may grant to Eligible Persons options to purchase Stock.

Any Stock Option granted under the Plan shall be in such form as the Committee may from time to time approve.

Stock Options granted under the Plan may be either Incentive Stock Options (subject to compliance with applicable law) or Non-Statutory Stock Options. Unless


otherwise so designated, an Option shall be a Non-Statutory Stock Option. To the extent that any Option does not qualify as an Incentive Stock Option, it shall constitute a Non-Statutory Stock Option.

No Incentive Stock Option shall be granted under the Plan after the tenth anniversary of the date of adoption of the Plan by the Board.

The Committee in its discretion may determine the effective date of Stock Options, provided, however, that grants of Incentive Stock Options shall be made only to persons who are, on the effective date of the grant, employees of the Company or an Affiliate. Stock Options granted pursuant to this Section 5 shall contain such additional terms and conditions, not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan, as the Committee shall deem desirable.

(a) Exercise Price. The exercise price per share for the Stock covered by a Stock Option granted pursuant to this Section 5 shall be determined by the Committee at the time of grant but shall be not less than one hundred percent (100%) of Fair Market Value on the date of grant. If an employee owns or is deemed to own (by reason of the attribution rules applicable under Section 424(d) of the Code) more than ten percent (10%) of the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any Affiliate and an Incentive Stock Option is granted to such employee, the option price shall be not less than one hundred ten percent (110%) of Fair Market Value on the date of grant.

(b) Option Term. The term of each Stock Option shall be fixed by the Committee, but no Stock Option shall be exercisable more than seven (7) years after the date the Option is granted. If an employee owns or is deemed to own (by reason of the attribution rules of Section 424(d) of the Code) more than ten percent (10%) of the combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any Affiliate and an Incentive Stock Option is granted to such employee, the term of such option shall be no more than five (5) years from the date of grant.

(c) Exercisability; Rights of a Shareholder. Stock Options shall become vested and exercisable at such time or times, whether or not in installments, as shall be determined by the Committee. The Committee may at any time accelerate the exercisability of all or any portion of any Stock Option. An optionee shall have the rights of a shareholder only as to shares acquired upon the exercise of a Stock Option and not as to unexercised Stock Options.

(d) Method of Exercise. Stock Options may be exercised in whole or in part, by delivering written notice of exercise to the Company, specifying the number of shares to be purchased. Payment of the purchase price may be made by delivery of cash or bank check or other instrument acceptable to the Committee in an amount equal to the exercise price of such Options, or, to the extent provided in the applicable Option Agreement, by one or more of the following methods:


(i) by delivery to the Company of shares of Stock having a fair market value equal in amount to the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised; provided, however, that an optionholder may not utilize this method of payment unless the following conditions are met:

 

  (1) at the time the optionholder submits the outstanding shares of Stock as payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised, the optionholder shall have provided the Company with a letter stating that (a) the optionholder does not know of any material, non-public information concerning the Company, and (b) the Company is not currently in a “blackout” period; and

 

  (2) the transaction shall have been approved by the President of the Company or its corporate counsel on the date on which the outstanding shares of Stock are tendered as payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised.

(ii) if the class of Stock is registered under the Exchange Act at such time, by delivery to the Company of a properly executed exercise notice along with irrevocable instructions to a broker to deliver promptly to the Company cash or a check payable and acceptable to the Company for the purchase price; provided that in the event that the optionee chooses to pay the purchase price as so provided, the optionee and the broker shall comply with such procedures and enter into such agreements of indemnity and other agreements as the Committee shall prescribe as a condition of such payment procedure (including, in the case of an optionee who is an executive officer of the Company, such procedures and agreements as the Committee deems appropriate in order to avoid any extension of credit in the form of a personal loan to such officer). The Company need not act upon such exercise notice until the Company receives full payment of the exercise price;

(iii) by reducing the number of Option shares otherwise issuable to the optionee upon exercise of the Option by a number of shares of Stock having a fair market value equal to such aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised; or

(iv) by any combination of such methods of payment.

The delivery of shares of Stock to be purchased pursuant to the exercise of a Stock Option will be contingent upon receipt from the optionee (or a purchaser acting in his stead in accordance with the provisions of the Stock Option) by the Company of the full purchase price for such shares and the fulfillment of any other requirements contained in the Stock Option or imposed by applicable law.

(e) Non-transferability of Options. Except as the Committee may provide with respect to a Non-Statutory Stock Option, no Stock Option shall be transferable other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution and all Stock Options shall be exercisable, during the optionee’s lifetime, only by the optionee.


(f) Annual Limit on Incentive Stock Options. To the extent required for “incentive stock option” treatment under Section 422 of the Code, the aggregate Fair Market Value (determined as of the time of grant) of the Stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options granted under this Plan and any other plan of the Company or its Affiliates become exercisable for the first time by an optionee during any calendar year shall not exceed $100,000.

(g) Special Limits Affecting Section 16(b) Option Holders. Shares issuable upon exercise of Options granted to a person who in the opinion of the Committee may be deemed to be a director or officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder shall not be sold or disposed of until after the expiration of six months following the date of grant.

SECTION 6. Option Grants to Non-Employee Directors.

(a) As compensation for services to the Company, each director of the Company who is not an employee of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company (an “Outside Director”) upon his or her initial election to the Board shall be automatically granted a Non-Statutory Stock Option to purchase 10,000 shares of Stock (the “Initial Option Grant”). In addition, any director of the Company who is elected to the Board but who is not an Outside Director at the time of his or her initial election and later becomes an Outside Director shall automatically receive an Initial Option Grant to purchase 10,000 shares of Stock upon his or her first election to the Board as an Outside Director. Each Initial Option Grant shall vest with respect to 2,500 shares on each three-month anniversary of the date of grant, provided that the optionee is a director of the Company on each such three-month anniversary, and shall expire on the fifth annual anniversary of the date of grant. At the first meeting of the Board following each annual meeting of stockholders, each Outside Director (other than any Outside Director who has received an Initial Option Grant as a result of election to the Board at such meeting) shall be automatically granted an additional Non-Statutory Stock Option to purchase 5,000 shares of Stock (the “Subsequent Option Grant”). Each Subsequent Option Grant shall be exercisable in its entirety on the date of grant and shall expire on the fifth annual anniversary of the date of grant.

(b) Each Outside Director appointed to serve on the Audit Committee of the Board shall automatically receive a Non-Statutory Stock Option to purchase 5,000 shares of Stock upon his or her appointment to the Audit Committee and an additional Non-Statutory Stock Option to purchase 5,000 shares of Stock on each anniversary of such appointment, so long as such director shall serve on the Audit Committee. Each such Option shall vest with respect to 1,250 shares on each three-month anniversary of the date of grant, provided that such optionee is a Director and member of the Audit Committee on each three-month anniversary, and shall expire on the fifth anniversary of the date of Grant.

(c) The exercise price per share of Stock of each Non-Statutory Stock Option granted pursuant to this Section 6 shall be equal to the Fair Market Value of the Stock on the date the Non-Statutory Stock Option is granted.


(d) Any Non-Statutory Stock Option granted to an Outside Director and outstanding on the date of his or her death may be exercised by the legal representative or legatee of the optionee until the expiration of the stated term of the Option.

Non-Statutory Stock Options granted under this Section 6 may be exercised only by written notice to the Company specifying the number of shares to be purchased. Payment of the full purchase may be made by one or more of the methods specified in Section 5. An optionee shall have the rights of a stockholder only as to shares acquired upon the exercise of an Option and not as to unexercised Options.

(e) The provisions of this Section 6 shall apply only to Options granted or to be granted to Outside Directors, and shall not be deemed to modify, limit or otherwise apply to any other provision of this Plan or to any Option issued under this Plan to a participant who is not an Outside Director of the Company. To the extent inconsistent with the provisions of any other section of this Plan, the provisions of this Section 6 shall govern the rights and obligations of the Company and Outside Directors respecting Options granted or to be granted to Outside Directors.

SECTION 7A. Restricted Stock Awards.

(a) Nature of Restricted Stock Award. The Committee in its discretion may grant Restricted Stock Awards to any Eligible Person, entitling the recipient to acquire, for such purchase price, if any, as may be determined by the Committee, shares of Stock subject to such restrictions and conditions as the Committee may determine at the time of grant (“Restricted Stock”), including continued employment and/or achievement of pre-established performance goals and objectives.

(b) Acceptance of Award. A participant who is granted Restricted Stock shall have no rights with respect to such Award unless the participant shall have accepted the Award within thirty (30) days (or such shorter date as the Committee may specify) following the award date by making payment to the Company of the specified purchase price, if any, of the shares covered by the Award and by executing and delivering to the Company a written instrument that sets forth the terms and conditions applicable to the Restricted Stock in such form as the Committee shall determine.

(c) Rights as a Shareholder. Upon complying with Section 7A(b) above, a participant shall have all the rights of a shareholder with respect to the Restricted Stock, including voting and dividend rights, subject to non-transferability restrictions and Company repurchase or forfeiture rights described in this Section 7A and subject to such other conditions contained in the written instrument evidencing the Restricted Stock. Unless the Committee shall otherwise determine, certificates, if any, evidencing shares of Restricted Stock shall remain in the possession of the Company until such shares are vested as provided in Section 7A(e) below.


(d) Restrictions. Shares of Restricted Stock may not be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged or otherwise encumbered or disposed of except as specifically provided herein. In the event of termination of employment by the Company and its Affiliates for any reason (including death, Disability, Normal Retirement and for Cause), any shares of Restricted Stock which have not then vested shall automatically be forfeited to the Company.

(e) Vesting of Restricted Stock. The Committee at the time of grant shall specify the date or dates and/or the attainment of pre-established performance goals, objectives and other conditions on which the non-transferability of the Restricted Stock and the Company’s right of forfeiture shall lapse. Subsequent to such date or dates and/or the attainment of such pre-established performance goals, objectives and other conditions, the shares on which all restrictions have lapsed shall no longer be Restricted Stock and shall be deemed “vested.” The Committee at any time may accelerate such date or dates and otherwise waive or, subject to Section 14, amend any conditions of the Award.

(f) Waiver, Deferral and Reinvestment of Dividends. The written instrument evidencing the Restricted Stock may require or permit the immediate payment, waiver, deferral or investment of dividends paid on the Restricted Stock.

SECTION 7B. Restricted Stock Units.

(a) Nature of Restricted Stock Unit. The Committee in its discretion may grant Restricted Stock Units to any Eligible Person, entitling the recipient to acquire Restricted Stock Units (“RSU”) with a value equivalent to a share of Stock subject to such restrictions and conditions as the Committee may determine at the time of grant, including continued employment and/or achievement of pre-established performance goals and objectives.

(b) Acceptance of Award. A participant who is granted a RSU shall have no rights with respect to such Award unless the participant shall have accepted the Award within thirty (30) days (or such shorter date as the Committee may specify) following the award by executing and delivering to the Company a written instrument that sets forth the terms and conditions applicable to the RSU in such form as the Committee shall determine.

(c) Rights as a Shareholder. The holder of a RSU shall have no rights as a shareholder.

(d) Restrictions. RSUs may not be sold, assigned, transferred, pledged or otherwise encumbered or disposed of except as specifically provided herein. In the event of termination of employment by the Company and its Affiliates for any reason (including death, Disability, Normal Retirement and for Cause), any RSUs which have not then vested shall automatically be forfeited to the Company.


(e) Vesting of RSUs. The Committee at the time of grant shall specify the date or dates and/or the attainment of pre-established performance goals, objectives and other conditions on which the vesting of the RSU shall be conditioned. No later than 30 days following such date or dates and/or the attainment of such pre-established performance goals, objectives and other conditions, the Company shall deliver to the participant one share of Stock for each vested RSU.

(f) Waiver, Deferral and Reinvestment of Dividends. No dividends shall be paid or accrue on any RSU.

SECTION 8. Other Stock-Based Awards.

Other Awards of shares of Stock, and other Awards that are valued in whole or in part by reference to, or are otherwise based on, shares of Stock or other property, may be granted hereunder to participants (“Other Stock Unit Awards”), including without limitation Awards entitling recipients to receive shares of Stock to be delivered in the future. Other Stock Unit Awards may be paid in shares of Stock or cash, as the Board shall determine. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Board shall determine the conditions of each Other Stock Unit Award, including any purchase price applicable thereto.

SECTION 9. Termination of Stock Options.

(a) Incentive Stock Options:

(i) Termination by Death. If any participant’s employment by the Company and its Affiliates terminates by reason of death, any Incentive Stock Option owned by such participant may thereafter be exercised to the extent exercisable at the date of death, by the legal representative or legatee of the participant, for a period of one year from the date of death, or until the expiration of the stated term of the Incentive Stock Option, if earlier.

(ii) Termination by Reason of Disability.

(A) Any Incentive Stock Option held by a participant whose employment by the Company and its Affiliates has terminated by reason of Disability may thereafter be exercised, to the extent it was exercisable at the time of such termination, for a period of one year from the date of such termination of employment, or until the expiration of the stated term of the Option, if earlier.

(B) The Committee shall have sole authority and discretion to determine whether a participant’s employment has been terminated by reason of Disability.

(iii) Termination for Cause. If any participant’s employment by the Company and its Affiliates has been terminated for Cause, as determined by the Committee in its sole discretion, any Incentive Stock Option held by such participant shall terminate immediately upon, and simultaneously with, termination of employment and be of no further force and effect.


(iv) Other Termination. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee, if a participant’s employment by the Company and its Affiliates terminates for any reason other than death, Disability, or for Cause, any Incentive Stock Option held by such participant may thereafter be exercised, to the extent it was exercisable on the date of termination of employment, for thirty (30) days from the date of termination of employment or until the expiration of the stated term of the Option, if earlier.

(b) Non-Statutory Stock Options. Any Non-Statutory Stock Option granted under the Plan shall contain such terms and conditions with respect to its termination as the Committee, in its discretion, may from time to time determine.

SECTION 10. Tax Withholding and Notice.

(a) Payment by Participant. Each participant shall, no later than the date as of which the value of an Award or of any Stock or other amounts received thereunder first becomes includable in the gross income of the participant for Federal income tax purposes, pay to the Company, or make arrangements satisfactory to the Committee regarding payment of any Federal, state, local and/or payroll taxes of any kind required by law to be withheld with respect to such income. The Company and its Affiliates shall, to the extent permitted by law, have the right to deduct any such taxes from any payment of any kind otherwise due to the participant.

(b) Payment in Shares. A participant may elect, with the consent of the Committee, to have such tax withholding obligation satisfied, in whole or in part, by (i) authorizing the Company to withhold from shares of Stock to be issued pursuant to an Award a number of shares with an aggregate Fair Market Value (as of the date the withholding is effected) that would satisfy the withholding amount due with respect to such Award, or (ii) delivering to the Company a number of shares of Stock with an aggregate Fair Market Value (as of the date the withholding is effected) that would satisfy the withholding amount due.

(c) Notice of Disqualifying Disposition. Each holder of an Incentive Stock Option shall agree to notify the Company in writing immediately after making a disqualifying disposition (as defined in Section 421(b) of the Code) of any Stock purchased upon exercise of an Incentive Stock Option.

(d) With respect to any employee who is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, the following additional restrictions shall apply: (i) the election to satisfy tax withholding obligations relating to an option exercise in the manner permitted by this Section 10 shall be made either (1) during the period beginning on the third business day following the date of release of quarterly or annual summary statements of sales and earnings of the Company and ending on the twelfth business day following such date, or (2) at least six months prior to the date of exercise of the Option; and (ii) the Common Stock withheld to satisfy tax withholding, if granted at the discretion of the Committee, must pertain to an Option which has been held by the employee for at least six months from the date of grant of the Option.


SECTION 11. Transfer and Leave of Absence.

For purposes of the Plan, the following events shall not be deemed a termination of employment:

(a) a transfer to the employment of the Company from an Affiliate or from the Company to an Affiliate, or from one Affiliate to another; and

(b) an approved leave of absence for military service or sickness, or for any other purpose approved by the Company, if the employee’s right to re-employment is guaranteed either by a statute or by contract or under the policy pursuant to which the leave of absence was granted or if the Committee otherwise so provides in writing; provided, that the vesting date or dates of any unvested Award held by such employee shall automatically be extended by a period of time equal to the period of such approved leave of absence.

SECTION 12. Amendments and Termination.

The Board may at any time amend or discontinue the Plan and the Committee may at any time amend or cancel any outstanding Award for the purpose of satisfying changes in law or for any other lawful purpose, but no such action shall adversely affect rights under any outstanding Award without the holder’s consent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither the Board nor the Committee shall have the power or authority to decrease the exercise price of any outstanding Stock Option, whether through amendment, cancellation and regrant, exchange or any other means, except for changes made pursuant to Section 3(c).

This Plan shall terminate as of the tenth anniversary of its effective date. The Board may terminate this Plan at any earlier time for any reason. No Award may be granted after the Plan has been terminated. No Award granted while this Plan is in effect shall be adversely altered or impaired by termination of this Plan, except upon the consent of the holder of such Award. The power of the Committee to construe and interpret this Plan and the Awards granted prior to the termination of this Plan shall continue after such termination.

SECTION 13. Status of Plan.

With respect to the portion of any Award which has not been exercised and any payments in Stock or other consideration not received by a participant, a participant shall have no rights greater than those of a general creditor of the Company unless the Committee shall otherwise expressly determine in connection with any Award or Awards.


SECTION 14. Change of Control Provisions.

(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control as defined in this Section 14:

(i) subject to the provisions of clause (iii) below, after the effective date of such Change of Control, each holder of an outstanding Stock Option shall be entitled, upon exercise of such Award, to receive, in lieu of shares of Stock, shares of such stock or other securities, cash or property (or consideration based upon shares of such stock or other securities, cash or property) as the holders of shares of Stock received in connection with the Change of Control;

(ii) the Committee may accelerate, fully or in part, the time for exercise of, and waive any or all conditions and restrictions on, each unexercised and unexpired Stock Option, Restricted Stock, RSU or Other Stock Unit Award, effective upon a date prior or subsequent to the effective date of such Change of Control, as specified by the Committee; or

(iii) each outstanding Stock Option may be cancelled by the Committee as of the effective date of any such Change of Control provided that (x) prior written notice of such cancellation shall be given to each holder of such an Option and (y) each holder of such an Option shall have the right to exercise such Option to the extent that the same is then exercisable or, in full, if the Committee shall have accelerated the time for exercise of all such unexercised and unexpired Options, during the thirty (30) day period preceding the effective date of such Change of Control.

(b) “Change of Control” shall mean the occurrence of any one of the following events:

(i) any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) becomes, after the Effective Date of this Plan, a “beneficial owner” (as such term is defined in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) (other than the Company, any trustee or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company, or any corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of stock of the Company), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities; or

(ii) the stockholders of the Company approve a merger or consolidation of the Company with any other corporation or other entity, other than a merger or consolidation which would result in the voting securities of the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) more than fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the voting securities of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation; or

 


(iii) the stockholders of the Company approve a plan of complete liquidation of the Company or an agreement for the sale or disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the Company’s assets.

SECTION 15. General Provisions.

(a) No Distribution; Compliance with Legal Requirements. The Committee may require each person acquiring shares pursuant to an Award to represent to and agree with the Company in writing that such person is acquiring the shares without a view to distribution thereof.

No shares of Stock shall be issued pursuant to an Award until all applicable securities laws and other legal and stock exchange requirements have been satisfied. The Committee may require the placing of such stop orders and restrictive legends on certificates, if any, for Stock and Awards as it deems appropriate.

(b) Delivery of Shares. Delivery of shares to participants under this Plan shall be deemed effected for all purposes when the Company or a stock transfer agent of the Company shall either (i) have delivered stock certificates representing the shares in the United States mail, addressed to the participant, at the participant’s last known address on file with the Company, or (ii) placed such shares in electronic form in an account in the participant’s name.

(c) Other Compensation Arrangements; No Employment Rights. Nothing contained in this Plan shall prevent the Board from adopting other or additional compensation arrangements, including trusts, subject to stockholder approval if such approval is required; and such arrangements may be either generally applicable or applicable only in specific cases. The adoption of the Plan or any Award under the Plan does not confer upon any employee any right to continued employment with the Company or any Affiliate.

(d) Lock-Up Agreement. By accepting any Award, the recipient shall be deemed to have agreed that, if so requested by the Company or by the underwriters managing any underwritten offering of the Company’s securities, the recipient will not, without the prior written consent of the Company or such underwriters, as the case may be, sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose of any shares subject to any such Award during the Lock-up Period, as defined below. The “Lock-Up Period” shall mean a period of time not exceeding 180 days or, if greater, such number of days as shall have been agreed to by each director and executive officer of the Company in connection with such offering in a substantially similar lock-up agreement by which each such director and executive officer is bound. If requested by the Company or such underwriters, the recipient shall enter into an agreement with such underwriters consistent with the foregoing.


SECTION 16. Effective Date of Plan.

This Plan shall become effective upon its adoption by the Company’s Board of Directors. If the Plan shall not be approved by the shareholders of the Company within twelve months following its adoption, this Plan shall terminate and be of no further force or effect.

SECTION 17. Governing Law.

This Plan shall be governed by, and construed and enforced in accordance with, the substantive laws of the State of Delaware without regard to its principles of conflicts of laws.

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EX-10.2 4 dex102.htm AMENDED AND RESTATED 2003 INCENTIVE AND NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION PLAN AMENDED AND RESTATED 2003 INCENTIVE AND NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION PLAN

Exhibit 10.2

KVH INDUSTRIES, INC.

AMENDED AND RESTATED

2003 INCENTIVE AND NONQUALIFIED

STOCK OPTION PLAN

(AS AMENDED ON JULY 26, 2007)

SECTION 1. PURPOSE

This 2003 Incentive and Nonqualified Stock Option Plan (the “Plan”) of KVH Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), is designed to provide additional incentive to executives and other key employees of the Company and its subsidiaries and for certain other individuals providing services to or acting as directors of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company intends that this purpose will be effected by the granting of incentive stock options (“Incentive Stock Options”) as defined in Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and nonqualified stock options (“Nonqualified Options”) under the Plan which afford such executives, key employees, directors and other eligible individuals an opportunity to acquire or increase their proprietary interest in the Company through the acquisition of shares of its Common Stock. The Company intends that Incentive Stock Options issued under the Plan will qualify as “incentive stock options” as defined in Section 422 of the Code and the terms of the Plan shall be interpreted in accordance with this intention. The term “subsidiary” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 424 of the Code.

SECTION 2 ADMINISTRATION

2.1 THE COMMITTEE. The Plan shall be administered by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of the Company, so long as each member of such committee shall qualify as an Outside Director, as defined below. In the event the Compensation Committee shall include any director who is not an Outside Director, the Outside Directors then serving as members of the Compensation Committee shall constitute the Stock Option Committee of the Board of Directors to administer the Plan (the Compensation Committee or Stock Option Committee, if appointed, being referred to herein as the “Committee”). The Committee shall have at least two members at all times. As used herein, the term “Outside Director” means any director who (i) is not an employee of the Company or of any “affiliated group,” as such term is defined in Section 1504(a) of the Code, which includes the Company (an “Affiliate”), (ii) is not a former employee of the Company or any Affiliate who is receiving compensation for prior services (other than benefits under a tax-qualified retirement plan) during the Company’s or any Affiliate’s taxable year, (iii) has not been an officer of the Company or any Affiliate and (iv) does not receive remuneration from the Company or any Affiliate, either directly or indirectly, in any capacity other than as a director. None of the members of the Committee shall have been granted any incentive stock option or nonqualified option under this Plan (other than pursuant to Section 4.4) or any other stock option plan of the Company within one year prior to service on the Committee. It is the intention of the Company that the Plan shall be administered by “disinterested persons” within the


meaning of Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), but the authority and validity of any act taken or not taken by the Committee shall not be affected if any person administering the Plan is not a disinterested person. Except as specifically reserved to the Company’s Board of Directors under the terms of the Plan, the Committee shall have full and final authority to operate, manage and administer the Plan on behalf of the Company. Action by the Committee shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of all members thereof.

2.2 POWERS OF THE COMMITTEE. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, the Committee shall have the power:

(a) To determine from time to time the persons eligible to receive options and the options to be granted to such persons under the Plan and to prescribe the terms, conditions, restrictions, if any, and provisions (which need not be identical) of each option granted under the Plan to such persons;

(b) To construe and interpret the Plan and options granted thereunder and to establish, amend, and revoke rules and regulations for administration of the Plan. In this connection, the Committee may correct any defect or supply any omission, or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan, or in any option agreement, in the manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective. All decisions and determinations by the Committee in the exercise of this power shall be final and binding upon the Company and optionees;

(c) Except as provided in Section 6.3 hereof, to make, in its sole discretion, changes to any outstanding option granted under the Plan, including: (i) to accelerate the vesting schedule or (ii) to extend the expiration date; and

(d) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as are deemed necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company with respect to the Plan.

SECTION 3. STOCK

3.1 STOCK TO BE ISSUED. The stock subject to the options granted under the Plan shall be shares of the Company’s authorized but unissued Common Stock, $.01 par value (the “Common Stock”), or shares of the Company’s Common Stock held in treasury. The total number of shares that may be issued pursuant to options granted under the Plan shall not exceed an aggregate of 1,000,000 shares of Common Stock; provided, however, that the class and aggregate number of shares which may be subject to options granted under the Plan shall be subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8 hereof.

3.2 EXPIRATION, CANCELLATION OR TERMINATION OF OPTION. Whenever any outstanding option under the Plan expires, is cancelled or is otherwise terminated (other than by exercise), the shares of Common Stock allocable to the unexercised portion of such option may again be the subject of options under the Plan.

 


3.3 LIMITATION ON GRANTS. In no event may any Plan participant be granted options with respect to more than 120,000 shares of Common Stock in any calendar year. The number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to an option granted to a Plan participant in a calendar year that is subsequently forfeited, cancelled or otherwise terminated shall continue to count toward the foregoing limitation in such calendar year. In addition, if the exercise price of an option is subsequently reduced, the transaction shall be deemed a cancellation of the original option and the grant of a new one so that both transactions shall count toward the maximum shares issuable in the calendar year of each respective transaction.

SECTION 4. ELIGIBILITY

4.1 PERSONS ELIGIBLE. Incentive Stock Options under the Plan may be granted only to officers and other employees of the Company or its subsidiaries. Nonqualified Options may be granted to officers or other employees of the Company or its subsidiaries, and to members of the Board and consultants or other persons who render services to the Company (regardless of whether they are also employees), provided, however, that no such option may be granted to a person who is a member of the Committee at the time of grant other than pursuant to Section 4.4.

4.2 GREATER-THAN-TEN-PERCENT STOCKHOLDERS. Except as may otherwise be permitted by the Code or other applicable law or regulation, no Incentive Stock Option shall be granted to an individual who, at the time the option is granted, owns (including ownership attributed pursuant to Section 424 of the Code) more than ten percent of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any subsidiary (a “greater-than-ten-percent stockholder”), unless such Incentive Stock Option provides that (i) the purchase price per share shall not be less than one hundred ten percent of the fair market value of the Common Stock at the time such option is granted, and (ii) that such option shall not be exercisable to any extent after the expiration of five years from the date it is granted.

4.3 MAXIMUM AGGREGATE FAIR MARKET VALUE. The aggregate fair market value (determined at the time the option is granted) of the Common Stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are exercisable for the first time by any optionee during any calendar year (under the Plan and any other plans of the Company or its subsidiary for the issuance of incentive stock options) shall not exceed $100,000 (or such greater amount as may from time to time be permitted with respect to incentive stock options by the Code or any other applicable law or regulation).

4.4 OPTION GRANTS TO NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS.

(a) As compensation for services to the Company, each director of the Company who is not an employee of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company (a “Non-Employee Director”) upon his or her initial election to the Board shall be automatically granted a Nonqualified Option to purchase 10,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company (the “Initial Option Grant”). In addition, any director of the Company who is elected to the Board but who is not a Non-Employee Director at the


time of his or her initial election and later becomes a Non-Employee Director shall automatically receive an Initial Option Grant to purchase 10,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company upon his or her first election to the Board as a Non-Employee Director. Each Initial Option Grant shall vest with respect to 2,500 shares on each three-month anniversary of the date of grant, provided that the optionee is a director of the Company on each such three-month anniversary, and shall expire on the fifth annual anniversary of the date of grant. At the first meeting of the Board of Directors following each annual meeting of stockholders, each Non-Employee Director (other than any Non-Employee Director who has received an Initial Option Grant as a result of election to the Board at such meeting) shall be automatically granted an additional Nonqualified Option to purchase 5,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company (the “Subsequent Option Grant”). Each Subsequent Option Grant shall be exercisable in its entirety on the date of grant and shall expire on the fifth annual anniversary of the date of grant;

(b) Each Non-Employee Director appointed to serve on the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors shall automatically receive an Option Grant to purchase 5,000 shares of Common Stock upon his or her appointment to the Audit Committee and an additional Option Grant of 5,000 shares of Common Stock on each anniversary of such appointment, so long as such Director shall serve on the Audit Committee. Each such Option shall vest with respect to 1,250 shares on each three-month anniversary of the date of Grant, provided that such optionee is a Director and member of the Audit Committee on each three-month anniversary, and shall expire on the fifth anniversary of the date of Grant;

(c) The exercise price per share of Common Stock of each Nonqualified Option granted pursuant to this Section 4.4 shall be equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date the Nonqualified Option is granted, such fair market value to be determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.3;

(d) No Nonqualified Option granted under this Section 4.4 shall be transferable by the optionee otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and such Options shall be exercisable during the optionee’s lifetime only by the optionee. Any Nonqualified Option granted to a Non-Employee Director and outstanding on the date of his or her death may be exercised by the legal representative or legatee of the optionee until the expiration of the stated term of the option; Nonqualified Options granted under this Section 4.4 may be exercised only by written notice to the Company specifying the number of shares to be purchased. Payment of the full purchase may be made by one or more of the methods specified in Section 7.2. An optionee shall have the rights of a stockholder only as to shares acquired upon the exercise of an option and not as to unexercised options.

(e) The provisions of this Section 4.4 shall apply only to options granted or to be granted to Non-Employee Directors, and shall not be deemed to modify, limit or otherwise apply to any other provision of this Plan or to any option issued under this Plan to a participant who is not a Non-Employee Director of the Company. To the extent inconsistent with the provisions of any other Section of this Plan, the provisions of this Section 4.4 shall govern the rights and obligations of the Company and Non-


Employee Directors respecting options granted or to be granted to Non-Employee Directors.

SECTION 5. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OR DEATH OF OPTIONEE

5.1 TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT. Except as may be otherwise expressly provided herein, options shall terminate on the earlier of:

(a) the date of expiration thereof;

(b) the date of termination of the optionee’s employment with or services to the Company by it for cause (as determined by the Company), or voluntarily by the optionee; or

(c) thirty days after the date of termination of the optionee’s employment with or services to the Company by it without cause; provided, that Nonqualified Options granted to persons who are not employees of the Company need not, unless the Committee determines otherwise, be subject to the provisions set forth in clauses (b) and (c) above.

An employment relationship between the Company and the optionee shall be deemed to exist during any period in which the optionee is employed by the Company or any subsidiary. Whether authorized leave of absence, or absence on military or government service, shall constitute termination of the employment relationship between the Company and the optionee shall be determined by the Committee at the time thereof.

As used herein, “cause” shall mean (x) any material breach by the optionee of any agreement to which the optionee and the Company are both parties, (y) any act or omission to act by the optionee which may have a material and adverse effect on the Company’s business or on the optionee’s ability to perform services for the Company, including, without limitation, the commission of any crime (other than ordinary traffic violations), or (z) any material misconduct or material neglect of duties by the optionee in connection with the business or affairs of the Company or any affiliate of the Company.

5.2 DEATH OR PERMANENT DISABILITY OF OPTIONEE. In the event of the death or permanent and total disability of the holder of an option prior to termination of the optionee’s employment with or services to the Company and before the date of expiration of such option, such option shall terminate on the earlier of such date of expiration or one year following the date of such death or disability. After the death of the optionee, his/her executors, administrators or any person or persons to whom his/her option may be transferred by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, shall have the right, at any time prior to such termination, to exercise the option to the extent the optionee was entitled to exercise such option immediately prior to his/her death. An optionee is permanently and totally disabled if he/she is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months; permanent and total disability shall be determined in accordance with Section


22(e)(3) of the Code and the regulations issued thereunder.

SECTION 6. TERMS OF THE OPTION AGREEMENTS

Each option agreement shall be in writing and shall contain such terms, conditions, restrictions, if any, and provisions as the Committee shall from time to time deem appropriate. Such provisions or conditions may include without limitation restrictions on transfer, repurchase rights, or such other provisions as shall be determined by the Committee; provided, that such additional provisions shall not be inconsistent with any other term or condition of the Plan and such additional provisions shall not cause any Incentive Stock Option granted under the Plan to fail to qualify as an incentive option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code. Option agreements need not be identical, but each option agreement by appropriate language shall include the substance of all of the following provisions:

6.1 EXPIRATION OF OPTION. Subject to Section 4.4 hereof, notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan or of any option agreement, each option shall expire on the date specified in the option agreement, which date shall not, in the case of an Incentive Stock Option, be later than the tenth anniversary (fifth anniversary in the case of a greater-than-ten-percent stockholder) of the date on which the option was granted, or as specified in Section 5 hereof.

6.2 EXERCISE. Subject to Sections 4.4 and 7.3 hereof, each option may be exercised, so long as it is valid and outstanding, from time to time in part or as a whole, subject to any limitations with respect to the number of shares for which the option may be exercised at a particular time and to such other conditions as the Committee in its discretion may specify upon granting the option.

6.3 PURCHASE PRICE. Subject to Section 4.4 hereof, the purchase price per share under each option shall be determined by the Committee at the time the option is granted; provided, however, (i) that the option price of any Incentive Stock Option shall not, unless otherwise permitted by the Code or other applicable law or regulation, be less than the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date the option is granted (110% of the fair market value in the case of a greater-than-ten-percent stockholder), and (ii) that, unless approved by the holders of a majority of the shares present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of the Company’s stockholders, the option price of any stock option shall not be less than the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date the option is granted and the exercise price of any outstanding stock option grant under any existing or future stock option plan may not be reduced. Subsection 6.3(ii) hereof may not be amended or repealed without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of the Company present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of the Company’s stockholders. For the purpose of the Plan the fair market value of the Common Stock shall be the closing price per share on the date of grant of the option as reported by a nationally recognized stock exchange, or, if the Common Stock is not listed on such an exchange, as reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System, Inc. (“NASDAQ”), or, if the Common Stock is not quoted on NASDAQ, the fair market value as determined by the Committee.

 


6.4 TRANSFERABILITY OF OPTIONS. Options shall not be transferable by the optionee otherwise than by will or under the laws of descent and distribution, and shall be exercisable, during his or her lifetime, only by him or her.

6.5 RIGHTS OF OPTIONEES. No optionee shall be deemed for any purpose to be the owner of any shares of Common Stock subject to any option unless and until the option shall have been exercised pursuant to the terms thereof, and the Company shall have issued and delivered the shares to the optionee.

6.6 REPURCHASE RIGHT. The Committee may in its discretion provide upon the grant of any option hereunder that the Company shall have an option to repurchase upon such terms and conditions as determined by the Committee all or any number of shares purchased upon exercise of such option. The repurchase price per share payable by the Company shall be such amount or be determined by such formula as is fixed by the Committee at the time the option for the shares subject to repurchase is granted. In the event the Committee shall grant options subject to the Company’s repurchase option, the certificates, if any, representing the shares purchased pursuant to such option shall carry a legend satisfactory to counsel for the Company referring to the Company’s repurchase option.

6.7 “LOCKUP” AGREEMENT. The Committee may in its discretion specify upon granting an option that the optionee shall agree for a period of time (not to exceed 180 days) from the effective date of any registration of securities of the Company (upon request of the Company or the underwriters managing any underwritten offering of the Company’s securities), not to sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose of any shares issued pursuant to the exercise of such option, without the prior written consent of the Company or such underwriters, as the case may be.

SECTION 7. METHOD OF EXERCISE; PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE

7.1 METHOD OF EXERCISE. Any option granted under the Plan may be exercised by the optionee by delivering to the Company on any business day a written notice specifying the number of shares of Common Stock the optionee then desires to purchase and specifying the address to which the certificates (if any) for, or other evidence of, such shares are to be mailed (the “Notice”), accompanied by payment for such shares.

7.2 PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE. Payment for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to the exercise of an option shall be made by:

(a) cash in an amount, or a check, bank draft or postal or express money order payable in an amount, equal to the aggregate exercise price for the number of shares specified in the Notice;

(b) by delivery to the Company of shares of Common Stock having a fair market value (as defined for purposes of Section 6.3 hereof) equal in amount to the


aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised; provided, however, that an optionholder may not utilize this method of payment unless the following conditions are met:

(1) at the time the optionholder submits the outstanding shares of Stock as payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised, the optionholder shall have provided the Company with a letter stating that (a) the optionholder does not know of any material, non-public information concerning the Company, and (b) the Company is not currently in a “blackout” period; and

(2) the transaction shall have been approved by the President of the Company or its corporate counsel on the date on which the outstanding shares of Stock are tendered as payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised.

(c) with the consent of the Committee, such other consideration that is acceptable to the Committee and that has a fair market value, as determined by the Committee, equal to such aggregate exercise price, including any broker-directed cashless exercise/resale procedure adopted by the Committee; or

(d) with the consent of the Committee, any combination of the foregoing.

As promptly as practicable after receipt of the Notice and accompanying payment, the Company shall deliver to the optionee the number of shares with respect to which such option has been so exercised, issued in the optionee’s name; provided, however, that such delivery shall be deemed effected for all purposes when the Company or a stock transfer agent of the Company shall have either (i) deposited stock certificates representing such shares in the United States mail, addressed to the optionee, at the address specified in the Notice, or (ii) placed such shares in electronic form in an account in the optionee’s name.

7.3 SPECIAL LIMITS AFFECTING SECTION 16(B) OPTION HOLDERS. Shares issuable upon exercise of options granted to a person who in the opinion of the Committee may be deemed to be a director or officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder shall not be sold or disposed of until after the expiration of six months following the date of grant.

SECTION 8. CHANGES IN COMPANY’S CAPITAL STRUCTURE

8.1 RIGHTS OF COMPANY. The existence of outstanding options shall not affect in any way the right or power of the Company or its stockholders to make or authorize, without limitation, any or all adjustments, recapitalizations, reorganizations or other changes in the Company’s capital structure or its business, or any merger or consolidation of the Company, or any issue of Common Stock, or any issue of bonds,


debentures, preferred or prior preference stock or other capital stock ahead of or affecting the Common Stock or the rights thereof, or the dissolution or liquidation of the Company, or any sale or transfer of all or any part of its assets or business, or any other corporate act or proceeding, whether of a similar character or otherwise.

8.2 RECAPITALIZATION, STOCK SPLITS AND DIVIDENDS. If the Company shall effect a subdivision or consolidation of shares or other capital readjustment, the payment of a stock dividend, or other increase or reduction of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding, in any such case without receiving compensation therefor in money, services or property, then (i) the number, class, and price per share of shares of stock subject to outstanding options hereunder shall be appropriately adjusted in such a manner as to entitle an optionee to receive upon exercise of an option, for the same aggregate cash consideration, the same total number and class of shares as he or she would have received as a result of the event requiring the adjustment had he or she exercised his or her option in full immediately prior to such event; (ii) the number and class of shares with respect to which options may be granted under the Plan; and (iii) the number and class of shares set forth in Sections 3.3 and 4.4 shall be adjusted by substituting for the total number of shares of Common Stock then reserved for issuance under the Plan that number and class of shares of stock that the owner of an equal number of outstanding shares of Common Stock would own as the result of the event requiring the adjustment.

8.3 MERGER WITHOUT CHANGE OF CONTROL. After a merger of one or more corporations into the Company, or after a consolidation of the Company and one or more corporations in which (i) the Company shall be the surviving corporation, and (ii) the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such merger or consolidation own after such merger or consolidation shares representing at least fifty percent of the voting power of the Company, each holder of an outstanding option shall, at no additional cost, be entitled upon exercise of such option to receive in lieu of the number of shares as to which such option shall then be so exercisable, the number and class of shares of stock or other securities to which such holder would have been entitled pursuant to the terms of the agreement of merger or consolidation if, immediately prior to such merger or consolidation, such holder had been the holder of record of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of shares for which such option was exercisable.

8.4 SALE OR MERGER WITH CHANGE OF CONTROL. If the Company is merged into or consolidated with another corporation under circumstances where the Company is not the surviving corporation, or if there is a merger or consolidation where the Company is the surviving corporation but the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such merger or consolidation do not own after such merger or consolidation shares representing at least fifty percent of the voting power of the Company, or if the Company is liquidated, or sells or otherwise disposes of substantially all of its assets to another corporation while unexercised options remain outstanding under the Plan, (i) subject to the provisions of clause (iii) below, after the effective date of such merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition, as the case may be, each holder of an outstanding option shall be entitled, upon exercise of such


option, to receive, in lieu of shares of Common Stock, shares of such stock or other securities, cash or property as the holders of shares of Common Stock received pursuant to the terms of the merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition; (ii) the Committee may accelerate the time for exercise of all unexercised and unexpired options to and after a date prior to the effective date of such merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition, as the case may be, specified by the Committee; or (iii) all outstanding options may be cancelled by the Committee as of the effective date of any such merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition provided that (x) notice of such cancellation shall be given to each holder of an option and (y) each holder of an option shall have the right to exercise such option to the extent that the same is then exercisable or, if the Committee shall have accelerated the time for exercise of all unexercised and unexpired options, in full during the 30-day period preceding the effective date of such merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition.

8.5 ADJUSTMENTS TO COMMON STOCK SUBJECT TO OPTIONS. Except as hereinbefore expressly provided, the issue by the Company of shares of stock of any class, or securities convertible into shares of stock of any class, for cash or property, or for labor or services, either upon direct sale or upon the exercise of rights or warrants to subscribe therefor, or upon conversion of shares or obligations of the Company convertible into such shares or other securities, shall not affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the number or price of shares of Common Stock then subject to outstanding options.

8.6 MISCELLANEOUS. Adjustments under this Section 8 shall be determined by the Committee, and such determinations shall be conclusive. No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued under the Plan on account of any adjustment specified above.

SECTION 9. GENERAL RESTRICTIONS

9.1 INVESTMENT REPRESENTATIONS. The Company may require any person to whom an option is granted, as a condition of exercising such option, to give written assurances in substance and form satisfactory to the Company to the effect that such person is acquiring the Common Stock subject to the option for his or her own account for investment and not with any present intention of selling or otherwise distributing the same, and to such other effects as the Company deems necessary or appropriate in order to comply with federal and applicable state securities laws.

9.2 COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITIES LAWS. The Company shall not be required to sell or issue any shares under any option if the issuance of such shares shall constitute a violation by the optionee or by the Company of any provisions of any law or regulation of any governmental authority. In addition, in connection with the Securities Act of 1933, as now in effect or hereafter amended (the “Act”), upon exercise of any option, the Company shall not be required to issue such shares unless the Committee has received evidence satisfactory to it to the effect that the holder of such option will not transfer such shares except pursuant to a registration statement in effect under such Act or unless an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company has been


received by the Company to the effect that such registration is not required. Any determination in this connection by the Committee shall be final, binding and conclusive. In the event the shares issuable on exercise of an option are not registered under the Act, the Company may imprint upon any certificate representing shares so issued the following legend or any other legend which counsel for the Company considers necessary or advisable to comply with the Act and with applicable in this connection by the Committee shall be final, binding and conclusive. In the event the shares issuable on exercise of an option are not registered under the Act, the Company may imprint upon any certificate representing shares so issued the following legend or any other legend which counsel for the Company considers necessary or advisable to comply with the Act and with applicable state securities laws:

“The shares of stock represented by this certificate have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or under the securities laws of any State and may not be sold or transferred except upon such registration or upon receipt by the Corporation of an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Corporation, in form and substance for such sale or transfer.”

The Company may, but shall in no event be obligated to, register any securities covered hereby pursuant to the Act; and in the event any shares are so registered the Company may remove any legend on certificates representing such shares. The Company shall not be obligated to take any other affirmative action in order to cause the exercise of an option or the issuance of shares pursuant thereto to comply with any law or regulation of any governmental authority.

9.3 EMPLOYMENT OBLIGATION. The granting of any option shall not impose upon the Company any obligation to employ or continue to employ any optionee; and the right of the Company to terminate the employment of any officer or other employee shall not be diminished or affected by reason of the fact that an option has been granted to him or her.

SECTION 10. WITHHOLDING TAXES

10.1 RIGHTS OF COMPANY. The Company may require an employee exercising a Nonqualified Option, or disposing of shares of Common Stock acquired pursuant to the exercise of an Incentive Option in a disqualifying disposition (as defined in Section 421(b) of the Code), to reimburse the Company for any taxes required by any government to be withheld or otherwise deducted and paid by the Company in respect of the issuance or disposition of such shares. In lieu thereof, the Company shall have the right to withhold the amount of such taxes from any other sums due or to become due from the Company to the employee upon such terms and conditions as the Company may prescribe. The Company may, in its discretion, hold the shares to which such employee is otherwise entitled upon the exercise of an Option as security for the payment of any such withholding tax liability, until cash sufficient to pay that liability has been received or accumulated.

10.2 PAYMENT IN SHARES. An employee may elect to have such tax


withholding obligation satisfied, in whole or in part, by (i) authorizing the Company to withhold from shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the exercise of a Nonqualified Option a number of shares with an aggregate fair market value (as defined in Section 6.3 hereof determined as of the date the withholding is effected) that would satisfy the withholding amount due with respect to such exercise, or (ii) transferring to the Company shares of Common Stock owned by the employee with an aggregate fair market value (as defined in Section 6.3 hereof determined as of the date the withholding is effected) that would satisfy the withholding amount due. With respect to any employee who is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, the following additional restrictions shall apply:

(a) he election to satisfy tax withholding obligations relating to an option exercise in the manner permitted by this Section 10.2 shall be made either (1) during the period beginning on the third business day following the date of release of quarterly or annual summary statements of sales and earnings of the Company and ending on the twelfth business day following such date, or (2) at least six (6) months prior to the date of exercise of the option;

(b) such election shall be subject to the consent or approval of the Committee; and

(d) the Common Stock withheld to satisfy tax withholding, if granted at the discretion of the Committee, must pertain to an option which has been held by the employee for at least six (6) months from the date of grant of the option.

10.3 NOTICE OF DISQUALIFYING DISPOSITION. Each holder of an Incentive Option shall agree to notify the Company in writing immediately after making a disqualifying disposition (as defined in Section 421(b) of the Code) of any Common Stock purchased upon exercise of the Incentive Option.

SECTION 11. AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION OF PLAN

11.1 AMENDMENT. The Board may terminate the Plan and may amend the Plan at any time, and from time to time, subject to the limitation that, except as otherwise provided herein, no amendment shall be effective unless approved by the stockholders of the Company in accordance with applicable law and regulations, at an annual or special meeting held within 12 months before or after the date of adoption of such amendment, in any instance in which such amendment would: (i) increase the number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued under, or as to which Options may be granted pursuant to, the Plan; or (ii) change in substance the provisions of Section 4 hereof relating to eligibility to participate in the Plan. In addition, the provisions of Section 4.4 shall not be amended more than once every six months, other than to comport with changes in the Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or the rules thereunder. In addition, the provisions of Subsection 6.3(ii) may not be amended or repealed without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Common Stock present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of the Company’s stockholders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Board is expressly


authorized to amend the Plan, at any time and from time to time, to confirm it to the provisions of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act, as that Rule may be amended from time to time.

Except as otherwise provided herein, the rights and obligations under any option granted before amendment of this Plan or any unexercised portion of such option shall not be adversely affected by amendment of this Plan or such option without the consent of the holder of such option.

11.2 TERMINATION. This Plan shall terminate as of the tenth anniversary of its effective date. The Board may terminate this Plan at any earlier time for any or no reason. No Option may be granted after the Plan has been terminated. No Option granted while this Plan is in effect shall be altered or impaired by termination of this Plan, except upon the consent of the holder of such Option. The power of the Committee to construe and interpret this Plan and the Options granted prior to the termination of this Plan shall continue after such termination.

SECTION 12. NONEXCLUSIVITY OF PLAN

Neither the adoption of this Plan by the Board of Directors nor the submission of this Plan to the stockholders of the Company for approval shall be construed as creating any limitations on the power of the Board to adopt such other incentive arrangements as it may deem desirable, including the granting of stock options otherwise than under this Plan, and such arrangements may be either applicable generally or only in specific cases.

SECTION 13. EFFECTIVE DATE AND DURATION OF PLAN

This Plan shall become effective upon its adoption by the Board, provided, that the stockholders of the Company shall have approved this Plan within twelve months prior to or following the adoption of this Plan by the Board. Subject to the foregoing, options may be granted under the Plan at any time subsequent to its effective date; provided, however, that (a) no such option shall be exercised or exercisable unless the stockholders of the Company shall have approved the Plan within twelve months prior to or following the adoption of this Plan by the Board, and (b) all options issued prior to the date of such stockholders’ approval shall contain a reference to such condition. No option may be granted under the Plan after the tenth anniversary of the effective date. The Plan shall terminate (i) when the total amount of the Common Stock with respect to which options may be granted shall have been issued upon the exercise of options or (ii) by action of the Board of Directors pursuant to Section 11 hereof, whichever shall first occur.

SECTION 14. PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

14.1 SEVERABILITY. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Plan shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Plan, each of which shall remain in full force and effect.

14.2 CONSTRUCTION. The headings in this Plan are included for


convenience only and shall not in any way effect the meaning or interpretation of this Plan. Any term defined in the singular shall include the plural, and vice versa. The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” refer to this Plan as a whole and not to any particular part of this Plan. The word “including” as used herein shall not be construed so as to exclude any other thing not referred to or described.

14.3 FURTHER ASSURANCES. The Company and any holder of an option shall from time to time execute and deliver any and all further instruments, documents and agreements and do such other and further acts and things as may be required or useful to carry out the intent and purpose of this Plan and such option and to assure to the Company and such option holder the benefits contemplated by this Plan; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that neither the Company nor any option holder shall in any event be required to take any action inconsistent with the provisions of this Plan.

14.4 GOVERNING LAW. This Plan and each Option shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.

EX-10.3 5 dex103.htm AMENDED AND RESTATED 1996 INCENTIVE AND NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION PLAN AMENDED AND RESTATED 1996 INCENTIVE AND NON-QUALIFIED STOCK OPTION PLAN

Exhibit 10.3

KVH INDUSTRIES, INC.

AMENDED AND RESTATED

1996 INCENTIVE AND NONQUALIFIED STOCK OPTION PLAN

(AS AMENDED ON MAY 26, 1999, MAY 23, 2001 AND JULY 26, 2007)

SECTION 1. PURPOSE

This Amended and Restated 1996 Incentive and Nonqualified Stock Option Plan (the “Plan”) of KVH Industries, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), is designed to provide additional incentive to executives and other key employees of the Company and its subsidiaries and for certain other individuals providing services to or acting as directors of the Company and its subsidiaries. The Company intends that this purpose will be effected by the granting of incentive stock options (“Incentive Stock Options”) as defined in Section 422 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and nonqualified stock options (“Nonqualified Options”) under the Plan which afford such executives, key employees, directors and other eligible individuals an opportunity to acquire or increase their proprietary interest in the Company through the acquisition of shares of its Common Stock. The Company intends that Incentive Stock Options issued under the Plan will qualify as “incentive stock options” as defined in Section 422 of the Code and the terms of the Plan shall be interpreted in accordance with this intention. The term “subsidiary” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 424 of the Code.

SECTION 2. ADMINISTRATION

2.1 THE COMMITTEE. The Plan shall be administered by a Committee (the “Committee”) consisting of at least two (2) “Outside Directors” who may also be members of the Compensation Committee. As used herein, the term “Outside Director” means any director who (i) is not an employee of the Company or of any “affiliated group,” as such term is defined in Section 1504(a) of the Code, which includes the Company (an “Affiliate”), (ii) is not a former employee of the Company or any Affiliate who is receiving compensation for prior services (other than benefits under a tax-qualified retirement plan) during the Company’s or any Affiliate’s taxable year, (iii) has not been an officer of the Company or any Affiliate and (iv) does not receive remuneration from the Company or any Affiliate, either directly or indirectly, in any capacity other than as a director. None of the members of the Committee shall have been granted any incentive stock option or nonqualified option under this Plan (other than pursuant to Section 4.4) or any other stock option plan of the Company within one year prior to service on the Committee. It is the intention of the Company that the Plan shall be administered by “disinterested persons” within the meaning of Rule 16b-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), but the authority and validity of any act taken or not taken by the Committee shall not be affected if any person administering the Plan is not a disinterested person. Except as specifically reserved to the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) under the terms of the Plan, the Committee shall have full and final authority to operate, manage and administer the Plan on behalf of the Company. Action by the Committee shall require the affirmative vote of a majority of all members thereof.

 


2.2 POWERS OF THE COMMITTEE. Subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, the Committee shall have the power:

(a) To determine from time to time the persons eligible to receive options and the options to be granted to such persons under the Plan and to prescribe the terms, conditions, restrictions, if any, and provisions (which need not be identical) of each option granted under the Plan to such persons;

(b) To construe and interpret the Plan and options granted thereunder and to establish, amend, and revoke rules and regulations for administration of the Plan. In this connection, the Committee may correct any defect or supply any omission, or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan, or in any option agreement, in the manner and to the extent it shall deem necessary or expedient to make the Plan fully effective. All decisions and determinations by the Committee in the exercise of this power shall be final and binding upon the Company and optionees;

(c) To make, in its sole discretion, changes to any outstanding option granted under the Plan, including: (i) to reduce the exercise price, (ii) to accelerate the vesting schedule or (iii) to extend the expiration date; and

(d) Generally, to exercise such powers and to perform such acts as are deemed necessary or expedient to promote the best interests of the Company with respect to the Plan.

SECTION 3. STOCK

3.1 STOCK TO BE ISSUED. The stock subject to the options granted under the Plan shall be shares of the Company’s authorized but unissued Class A Common Stock, $.01 par value (the “Common Stock”), or shares of the Company’s Class A Common Stock held in treasury. The total number of shares that may be issued pursuant to options granted under the Plan shall not exceed an aggregate of 1,915,000 shares of Common Stock; provided, however, that the class and aggregate number of shares which may be subject to options granted under the Plan shall be subject to adjustment as provided in Section 8 hereof.

3.2 EXPIRATION, CANCELLATION OR TERMINATION OF OPTION. Whenever any outstanding option under the Plan expires, is cancelled or is otherwise terminated (other than by exercise), the shares of Common Stock allocable to the unexercised portion of such option may again be the subject of options under the Plan.

3.3 LIMITATION ON GRANTS. In no event may any Plan participant be granted options with respect to more than 120,000 shares of Common Stock in any calendar year. The number of shares of Common Stock issuable pursuant to an option granted to a Plan participant in a calendar year that is subsequently forfeited, cancelled or otherwise terminated shall continue to count toward the foregoing limitation in such calendar year. In addition, if the exercise price of an option is subsequently reduced, the transaction shall be deemed a cancellation of the original option and the grant of a new one so that both transactions shall count toward the maximum shares issuable in the calendar year of each respective transaction.

 


SECTION 4. ELIGIBILITY

4.1 PERSONS ELIGIBLE. Incentive Stock Options under the Plan may be granted only to officers and other employees of the Company or its subsidiaries. Nonqualified Options may be granted to officers or other employees of the Company or its subsidiaries, and to members of the Board and consultants or other persons who render services to the Company (regardless of whether they are also employees), provided, however, that no such option may be granted to a person who is a member of the Committee at the time of grant other than pursuant to Section 4.4.

4.2 GREATER-THAN-TEN-PERCENT STOCKHOLDERS. Except as may otherwise be permitted by the Code or other applicable law or regulation, no Incentive Stock Option shall be granted to an individual who, at the time the option is granted, owns (including ownership attributed pursuant to Section 424 of the Code) more than ten percent of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Company or any subsidiary (a “greater-than-ten-percent stockholder”), unless such Incentive Stock Option provides that (i) the purchase price per share shall not be less than one hundred ten percent of the fair market value of the Common Stock at the time such option is granted, and (ii) that such option shall not be exercisable to any extent after the expiration of five years from the date it is granted.

4.3 MAXIMUM AGGREGATE FAIR MARKET VALUE. The aggregate fair market value (determined at the time the option is granted) of the Common Stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options are exercisable for the first time by any optionee during any calendar year (under the Plan and any other plans of the Company or its subsidiary for the issuance of incentive stock options) shall not exceed $100,000 (or such greater amount as may from time to time be permitted with respect to incentive stock options by the Code or any other applicable law or regulation).

4.4 OPTION GRANTS TO NON-EMPLOYEE DIRECTORS. As compensation for services to the Company, each director of the Company who is not an employee of the Company or any subsidiary of the Company (a “Non-Employee Director”) in office on the date of the closing of the initial public offering of the Common Stock of the Company, and each other Non-Employee Director upon his or her initial election to the Board subsequent to said closing of the initial public offering, shall be automatically granted a Nonqualified Option to purchase 10,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company (the “Initial Option Grant”). In addition, any director of the Company who is elected to the Board but who is not a Non-Employee Director at the time of his or her initial election and later becomes a Non-Employee Director shall automatically receive an Initial Option Grant to purchase 10,000 shares of Common Stock of the Company upon his or her first election to the Board as a Non-Employee Director. Each Initial Option Grant shall vest with respect to 2,500 shares on each three-month anniversary of the date of grant, provided that the optionee is a director of the Company on each such three-month anniversary, and shall expire on the fifth annual anniversary of the date of grant. At the first meeting of the Board of Directors following each annual meeting of stockholders, commencing with the first meeting of the Board of Directors following the Company’s annual meeting of stockholders in 1997, each Non-Employee Director (other than any Non-Employee Director who has received an Initial Option Grant as a result of election to the Board at such meeting) shall be automatically granted an additional Nonqualified Option to purchase 5,000 shares of Common


Stock of the Company (the “Subsequent Option Grant”). Each Subsequent Option Grant shall be exercisable in its entirety on the date of grant and shall expire on the fifth annual anniversary of the date of grant. The exercise price per share of Common Stock of each Nonqualified Option granted pursuant to this Section 4.4 shall be equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date the Nonqualified Option is granted, such fair market value to be determined in accordance with the provisions of Section 6.3.

No Nonqualified Option granted under this Section 4.4 shall be transferable by the optionee otherwise than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, and such Options shall be exercisable during the optionee’s lifetime only by the optionee. Any Nonqualified Option granted to a Non-Employee Director and outstanding on the date of his or her death may be exercised by the legal representative or legatee of the optionee until the expiration of the stated term of the option.

Nonqualified Options granted under this Section 4.4 may be exercised only by written notice to the Company specifying the number of shares to be purchased. Payment of the full purchase may be made by one or more of the methods specified in Section 7.2. An optionee shall have the rights of a stockholder only as to shares acquired upon the exercise of an option and not as to unexercised options.

The provisions of this Section 4.4 shall apply only to options granted or to be granted to Non-Employee Directors, and shall not be deemed to modify, limit or otherwise apply to any other provision of this Plan or to any option issued under this Plan to a participant who is not a Non-Employee Director of the Company. To the extent inconsistent with the provisions of any other Section of this Plan, the provisions of this Section 4.4 shall govern the rights and obligations of the Company and Non-Employee Directors respecting options granted or to be granted to Non-Employee Directors.

SECTION 5. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OR DEATH OF OPTIONEE

5.1 TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT. Except as may be otherwise expressly provided herein, options shall terminate on the earlier of:

(a) the date of expiration thereof,

(b) the date of termination of the optionee’s employment with or services to the Company by it for cause (as determined by the Company), or voluntarily by the optionee; or

(c) thirty days after the date of termination of the optionee’s employment with or services to the Company by it without cause;

PROVIDED THAT Nonqualified Options granted to persons who are not employees of the Company need not, unless the Committee determines otherwise, be subject to the provisions set forth in clauses (b) and (c) above.

An employment relationship between the Company and the optionee shall be deemed to exist during any period in which the optionee is employed by the Company or any subsidiary. Whether authorized leave of absence, or absence on military or government service, shall


constitute termination of the employment relationship between the Company and the optionee shall be determined by the Committee at the time thereof.

As used herein, “cause” shall mean (x) any material breach by the optionee of any agreement to which the optionee and the Company are both parties, (y) any act or omission to act by the optionee which may have a material and adverse effect on the Company’s business or on the optionee’s ability to perform services for the Company, including, without limitation, the commission of any crime (other than ordinary traffic violations), or (z) any material misconduct or material neglect of duties by the optionee in connection with the business or affairs of the Company or any affiliate of the Company.

5.2 DEATH OR PERMANENT DISABILITY OF OPTIONEE. In the event of the death or permanent and total disability of the holder of an option prior to termination of the optionee’s employment with or services to the Company and before the date of expiration of such option, such option shall terminate on the earlier of such date of expiration or one year following the date of such death or disability. After the death of the optionee, his/her executors, administrators or any person or persons to whom his/her option may be transferred by will or by the laws of descent and distribution, shall have the right, at any time prior to such termination, to exercise the option to the extent the optionee was entitled to exercise such option immediately prior to his/her death. An optionee is permanently and totally disabled if he/she is unable to engage in any substantial gainful activity by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment which can be expected to last for a continuous period of not less than twelve months; permanent and total disability shall be determined in accordance with Section 22(e)(3) of the Code and the regulations issued thereunder.

SECTION 6. TERMS OF THE OPTION AGREEMENTS

Each option agreement shall be in writing and shall contain such terms, conditions, restrictions, if any, and provisions as the Committee shall from time to time deem appropriate. Such provisions or conditions may include without limitation restrictions on transfer, repurchase rights, or such other provisions as shall be determined by the Committee; PROVIDED THAT such additional provisions shall not be inconsistent with any other term or condition of the Plan and such additional provisions shall not cause any Incentive Stock Option granted under the Plan to fail to qualify as an incentive option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code. Option agreements need not be identical, but each option agreement by appropriate language shall include the substance of all of the following provisions:

6.1 EXPIRATION OF OPTION. Subject to Section 4.4 hereof, notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan or of any option agreement, each option shall expire on the date specified in the option agreement, which date shall not, in the case of an Incentive Stock Option, be later than the tenth anniversary (fifth anniversary in the case of a greater-than-ten-percent stockholder) of the date on which the option was granted, or as specified in Section 5 hereof.

6.2 EXERCISE. Subject to Sections 4.4 and 7.3 hereof, each option may be exercised, so long as it is valid and outstanding, from time to time in part or as a whole, subject to any limitations with respect to the number of shares for which the option may be exercised at a particular time and to such other conditions as the Committee in its discretion may specify upon


granting the option.

6.3 PURCHASE PRICE. Subject to Section 4.4 hereof, the purchase price per share under each option shall be determined by the Committee at the time the option is granted; provided, however, (i) that the option price of any Incentive Stock Option shall not, unless otherwise permitted by the Code or other applicable law or regulation, be less than the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date the option is granted (110% of the fair market value in the case of a greater-than-ten-percent stockholder), and (ii) that, unless approved by the holders of a majority of the shares present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of the Company’s stockholders, the option price of any stock option shall not be less than the fair market value of the Common Stock on the date the option is granted and the exercise price of any outstanding stock option grant under any existing or future stock option plan may not be reduced. Subsection 6.3(ii) hereof may not be amended or repealed without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of the Company present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of the Company’s stockholders. For the purpose of the Plan the fair market value of the Common Stock shall be the closing price per share on the date of grant of the option as reported by a nationally recognized stock exchange, or, if the Common Stock is not listed on such an exchange, as reported by the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System, Inc. (“NASDAQ”), or, if the Common Stock is not quoted on NASDAQ, the fair market value as determined by the Committee.

6.4 TRANSFERABILITY OF OPTIONS. Options shall not be transferable by the optionee otherwise than by will or under the laws of descent and distribution, and shall be exercisable, during his or her lifetime, only by him or her.

6.5 RIGHTS OF OPTIONEES. No optionee shall be deemed for any purpose to be the owner of any shares of Common Stock subject to any option unless and until the option shall have been exercised pursuant to the terms thereof, and the Company shall have issued and delivered the shares to the optionee.

6.6 REPURCHASE RIGHT. The Committee may in its discretion provide upon the grant of any option hereunder that the Company shall have an option to repurchase upon such terms and conditions as determined by the Committee all or any number of shares purchased upon exercise of such option. The repurchase price per share payable by the Company shall be such amount or be determined by such formula as is fixed by the Committee at the time the option for the shares subject to repurchase is granted. In the event the Committee shall grant options subject to the Company’s repurchase option, the certificates, if any, representing the shares purchased pursuant to such option shall carry a legend satisfactory to counsel for the Company referring to the Company’s repurchase option.

6.7 “LOCKUP” AGREEMENT. The Committee may in its discretion specify upon granting an option that the optionee shall agree for a period of time (not to exceed 180 days) from the effective date of any registration of securities of the Company (upon request of the Company or the underwriters managing any underwritten offering of the Company’s securities), not to sell, make any short sale of, loan, grant any option for the purchase of, or otherwise dispose of any shares issued pursuant to the exercise of such option, without the prior written consent of the Company or such underwriters, as the case may be.

 


SECTION 7. METHOD OF EXERCISE; PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE

7.1 METHOD OF EXERCISE. Any option granted under the Plan may be exercised by the optionee by delivering to the Company on any business day a written notice specifying the number of shares of Common Stock the optionee then desires to purchase and specifying the address to which the certificates (if any) for, or other evidence of, such shares are to be mailed (the “Notice”), accompanied by payment for such shares.

7.2 PAYMENT OF PURCHASE PRICE. Payment for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to the exercise of an option shall be made by:

(a) cash in an amount, or a check, bank draft or postal or express money order payable in an amount, equal to the aggregate exercise price for the number of shares specified in the Notice;

(b) by delivery to the Company of shares of Common Stock having a fair market value (as defined for purposes of Section 6.3 hereof) equal in amount to the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised; provided, however, that an optionholder may not utilize this method of payment unless the following conditions are met:

(1) at the time the optionholder submits the outstanding shares of Stock as payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised, the optionholder shall have provided the Company with a letter stating that (a) the optionholder does not know of any material, non-public information concerning the Company, and (b) the Company is not currently in a “blackout” period; and

(2) the transaction shall have been approved by the President of the Company or its corporate counsel on the date on which the outstanding shares of Stock are tendered as payment of the aggregate exercise price of the Options being exercised.

(c) with the consent of the Committee, a personal recourse note issued by the optionee to the Company in a principal amount equal to such aggregate exercise price and with such other terms, including interest rate and maturity, as the Committee may determine in its discretion; PROVIDED THAT the interest rate borne by such note shall not be less than the lowest applicable federal rate, as defined in Section 1274(d) of the Code;

(d) with the consent of the Committee, such other consideration that is acceptable to the Committee and that has a fair market value, as determined by the Committee, equal to such aggregate exercise price, including any broker-directed cashless exercise/resale procedure adopted by the Committee; or

(e) with the consent of the Committee, any combination of the foregoing.

As promptly as practicable after receipt of the Notice and accompanying payment, the Company shall deliver to the optionee the number of shares with respect to which such option has been so exercised, issued in the optionee’s name; provided, however, that such delivery shall


be deemed effected for all purposes when the Company or a stock transfer agent of the Company shall have either (i) deposited stock certificates representing such shares in the United States mail, addressed to the optionee, at the address specified in the Notice, or (ii) placed such shares in electronic form in an account in the optionee’s name.

7.3 SPECIAL LIMITS AFFECTING SECTION 16(B) OPTION HOLDERS. Shares issuable upon exercise of options granted to a person who in the opinion of the Committee may be deemed to be a director or officer of the Company within the meaning of Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder shall not be sold or disposed of until after the expiration of six months following the date of grant.

SECTION 8. CHANGES IN COMPANY’S CAPITAL STRUCTURE

8.1 RIGHTS OF COMPANY. The existence of outstanding options shall not affect in any way the right or power of the Company or its stockholders to make or authorize, without limitation, any or all adjustments, recapitalizations, reorganizations or other changes in the Company’s capital structure or its business, or any merger or consolidation of the Company, or any issue of Common Stock, or any issue of bonds, debentures, preferred or prior preference stock or other capital stock ahead of or affecting the Common Stock or the rights thereof, or the dissolution or liquidation of the Company, or any sale or transfer of all or any part of its assets or business, or any other corporate act or proceeding, whether of a similar character or otherwise.

8.2 RECAPITALIZATION, STOCK SPLITS AND DIVIDENDS. If the Company shall effect a subdivision or consolidation of shares or other capital readjustment, the payment of a stock dividend, or other increase or reduction of the number of shares of the Common Stock outstanding, in any such case without receiving compensation therefor in money, services or property, then (i) the number, class, and price per share of shares of stock subject to outstanding options hereunder shall be appropriately adjusted in such a manner as to entitle an optionee to receive upon exercise of an option, for the same aggregate cash consideration, the same total number and class of shares as he or she would have received as a result of the event requiring the adjustment had he or she exercised his or her option in full immediately prior to such event; (ii) the number and class of shares with respect to which options may be granted under the Plan; and (iii) the number and class of shares set forth in Sections 3.3 and 4.4 shall be adjusted by substituting for the total number of shares of Common Stock then reserved for issuance under the Plan that number and class of shares of stock that the owner of an equal number of outstanding shares of Common Stock would own as the result of the event requiring the adjustment.

8.3 MERGER WITHOUT CHANGE OF CONTROL. After a merger of one or more corporations into the Company, or after a consolidation of the Company and one or more corporations in which (i) the Company shall be the surviving corporation, and (ii) the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such merger or consolidation own after such merger or consolidation shares representing at least fifty percent of the voting power of the Company, each holder of an outstanding option shall, at no additional cost, be entitled upon exercise of such option to receive in lieu of the number of shares as to which such option shall then be so exercisable, the number and class of shares of stock or other securities to which such holder would have been entitled pursuant to the terms of the agreement of merger or


consolidation if, immediately prior to such merger or consolidation, such holder had been the holder of record of a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the number of shares for which such option was exercisable.

8.4 SALE OR MERGER WITH CHANGE OF CONTROL. If the Company is merged into or consolidated with another corporation under circumstances where the Company is not the surviving corporation, or if there is a merger or consolidation where the Company is the surviving corporation but the stockholders of the Company immediately prior to such merger or consolidation do not own after such merger or consolidation shares representing at least fifty percent of the voting power of the Company, or if the Company is liquidated, or sells or otherwise disposes of substantially all of its assets to another corporation while unexercised options remain outstanding under the Plan, (i) subject to the provisions of clause (iii) below, after the effective date of such merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition, as the case may be, each holder of an outstanding option shall be entitled, upon exercise of such option, to receive, in lieu of shares of Common Stock, shares of such stock or other securities, cash or property as the holders of shares of Common Stock received pursuant to the terms of the merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition; (ii) the Committee may accelerate the time for exercise of all unexercised and unexpired options to and after a date prior to the effective date of such merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition, as the case may be, specified by the Committee; or (iii) all outstanding options may be cancelled by the Committee as of the effective date of any such merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition provided that (x) notice of such cancellation shall be given to each holder of an option and (y) each holder of an option shall have the right to exercise such option to the extent that the same is then exercisable or, if the Committee shall have accelerated the time for exercise of all unexercised and unexpired options, in full during the 30-day period preceding the effective date of such merger, consolidation, liquidation, sale or disposition.

8.5 ADJUSTMENTS TO COMMON STOCK SUBJECT TO OPTIONS. Except as hereinbefore expressly provided, the issue by the Company of shares of stock of any class, or securities convertible into shares of stock of any class, for cash or property, or for labor or services, either upon direct sale or upon the exercise of rights or warrants to subscribe therefor, or upon conversion of shares or obligations of the Company convertible into such shares or other securities, shall not affect, and no adjustment by reason thereof shall be made with respect to, the number or price of shares of Common Stock then subject to outstanding options.

8.6 MISCELLANEOUS. Adjustments under this Section 8 shall be determined by the Committee, and such determinations shall be conclusive. No fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued under the Plan on account of any adjustment specified above.

SECTION 9. GENERAL RESTRICTIONS

9.1 INVESTMENT REPRESENTATIONS. The Company may require any person to whom an option is granted, as a condition of exercising such option, to give written assurances in substance and form satisfactory to the Company to the effect that such person is acquiring the Common Stock subject to the option for his or her own account for investment and not with any present intention of selling or otherwise distributing the same, and to such other effects as the Company deems necessary or appropriate in order to comply with federal and applicable state


securities laws.

9.2 COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITIES LAWS. The Company shall not be required to sell or issue any shares under any option if the issuance of such shares shall constitute a violation by the optionee or by the Company of any provisions of any law or regulation of any governmental authority. In addition, in connection with the Securities Act of 1933, as now in effect or hereafter amended (the “Act”), upon exercise of any option, the Company shall not be required to issue such shares unless the Committee has received evidence satisfactory to it to the effect that the holder of such option will not transfer such shares except pursuant to a registration statement in effect under such Act or unless an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Company has been received by the Company to the effect that such registration is not required. Any determination in this connection by the Committee shall be final, binding and conclusive. In the event the shares issuable on exercise of an option are not registered under the Act, the Company may imprint upon any certificate representing shares so issued the following legend or any other legend which counsel for the Company considers necessary or advisable to comply with the Act and with applicable state securities laws:

The shares of stock represented by this certificate have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 or under the securities laws of any State and may not be sold or transferred except upon such registration or upon receipt by the Corporation of an opinion of counsel satisfactory to the Corporation, in form and substance satisfactory to the Corporation, that registration is not required for such sale or transfer.

The Company may, but shall in no event be obligated to, register any securities covered hereby pursuant to the Act; and in the event any shares are so registered the Company may remove any legend on certificates representing such shares. The Company shall not be obligated to take any other affirmative action in order to cause the exercise of an option or the issuance of shares pursuant thereto to comply with any law or regulation of any governmental authority.

9.3 EMPLOYMENT OBLIGATION. The granting of any option shall not impose upon the Company any obligation to employ or continue to employ any optionee; and the right of the Company to terminate the employment of any officer or other employee shall not be diminished or affected by reason of the fact that an option has been granted to him or her.

SECTION 10. WITHHOLDING TAXES

10.1 RIGHTS OF COMPANY. The Company may require an employee exercising a Nonqualified Option, or disposing of shares of Common Stock acquired pursuant to the exercise of an Incentive Option in a disqualifying disposition (as defined in Section 421(b) of the Code), to reimburse the Company for any taxes required by any government to be withheld or otherwise deducted and paid by the Company in respect of the issuance or disposition of such shares. In lieu thereof, the Company shall have the right to withhold the amount of such taxes from any other sums due or to become due from the Company to the employee upon such terms and conditions as the Company may prescribe. The Company may, in its discretion, hold the shares to which such employee is otherwise entitled upon the exercise of an Option as security for the payment of any such withholding tax liability, until cash sufficient to pay that liability has been received or accumulated.

 


10.2 PAYMENT IN SHARES. An employee may elect to have such tax withholding obligation satisfied, in whole or in part, by (i) authorizing the Company to withhold from shares of Common Stock to be issued pursuant to the exercise of a Nonqualified Option a number of shares with an aggregate fair market value (as defined in Section 6.3 hereof determined as of the date the withholding is effected) that would satisfy the withholding amount due with respect to such exercise, or (ii) transferring to the Company shares of Common Stock owned by the employee with an aggregate fair market value (as defined in Section 6.3 hereof determined as of the date the withholding is effected) that would satisfy the withholding amount due. With respect to any employee who is subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, the following additional restrictions shall apply:

(a) the election to satisfy tax withholding obligations relating to an option exercise in the manner permitted by this Section 10.2 shall be made either (1) during the period beginning on the third business day following the date of release of quarterly or annual summary statements of sales and earnings of the Company and ending on the twelfth business day following such date, or (2) at least six (6) months prior to the date of exercise of the option;

(b) such election shall be irrevocable;

(c) such election shall be subject to the consent or approval of the Committee; and

(d) the Common Stock withheld to satisfy tax withholding, if granted at the discretion of the Committee, must pertain to an option which has been held by the employee for at least six (6) months from the date of grant of the option.

10.3 NOTICE OF DISQUALIFYING DISPOSITION. Each holder of an Incentive Option shall agree to notify the Company in writing immediately after making a disqualifying disposition (as defined in Section 421(b) of the Code) of any Common Stock purchased upon exercise of the Incentive Option.

SECTION 11. AMENDMENT OR TERMINATION OF PLAN

11.1 AMENDMENT. The Board may terminate the Plan and may amend the Plan at any time, and from time to time, subject to the limitation that, except as otherwise provided herein, no amendment shall be effective unless approved by the stockholders of the Company in accordance with applicable law and regulations, at an annual or special meeting held within 12 months before or after the date of adoption of such amendment, in any instance in which such amendment would: (i) increase the number of shares of Common Stock that may be issued under, or as to which Options may be granted pursuant to, the Plan; or (ii) change in substance the provisions of Section 4 hereof relating to eligibility to participate in the Plan. In addition, the provisions of Section 4.4 shall not be amended more than once every six months, other than to comport with changes in the Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or the rules thereunder. In addition, the provisions of Subsection 6.3(ii) may not be amended or repealed without the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares of Common Stock present and entitled to vote at a duly convened meeting of the Company’s stockholders. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Board is expressly authorized to amend the Plan, at any time


and from time to time, to confirm it to the provisions of Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act, as that Rule may be amended from time to time.

Except as otherwise provided herein, the rights and obligations under any option granted before amendment of this Plan or any unexercised portion of such option shall not be adversely affected by amendment of this Plan or such option without the consent of the holder of such option.

11.2 TERMINATION. This Plan shall terminate as of the tenth anniversary of its effective date. The Board may terminate this Plan at any earlier time for any or no reason. No Option may be granted after the Plan has been terminated. No Option granted while this Plan is in effect shall be altered or impaired by termination of this Plan, except upon the consent of the holder of such Option. The power of the Committee to construe and interpret this Plan and the Options granted prior to the termination of this Plan shall continue after such termination.

SECTION 12. NONEXCLUSIVITY OF PLAN

Neither the adoption of this Plan by the Board of Directors nor the submission of this Plan to the stockholders of the Company for approval shall be construed as creating any limitations on the power of the Board to adopt such other incentive arrangements as it may deem desirable, including the granting of stock options otherwise than under this Plan, and such arrangements may be either applicable generally or only in specific cases.

SECTION 13. EFFECTIVE DATE AND DURATION OF PLAN

This Plan shall become effective upon its adoption by the Board, PROVIDED that the stockholders of the Company shall have approved this Plan within twelve months prior to or following the adoption of this Plan by the Board. Subject to the foregoing, options may be granted under the Plan at any time subsequent to its effective date; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that (a) no such option shall be exercised or exercisable unless the stockholders of the Company shall have approved the Plan within twelve months prior to or following the adoption of this Plan by the Board, and (b) all options issued prior to the date of such stockholders’ approval shall contain a reference to such condition. No option may be granted under the Plan after the tenth anniversary of the effective date. The Plan shall terminate (i) when the total amount of the Common Stock with respect to which options may be granted shall have been issued upon the exercise of options or (ii) by action of the Board of Directors pursuant to Section 11 hereof, whichever shall first occur.

SECTION 14. PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION

14.1 SEVERABILITY. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Plan shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Plan, each of which shall remain in full force and effect.

14.2 CONSTRUCTION. The headings in this Plan are included for convenience only and shall not in any way effect the meaning or interpretation of this Plan. Any term defined in the singular shall include the plural, and vice versa. The words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” refer to this Plan as a whole and not to any particular part of this Plan. The word


“including” as used herein shall not be construed so as to exclude any other thing not referred to or described.

14.3 FURTHER ASSURANCES. The Company and any holder of an option shall from time to time execute and deliver any and all further instruments, documents and agreements and do such other and further acts and things as may be required or useful to carry out the intent and purpose of this Plan and such option and to assure to the Company and such option holder the benefits contemplated by this Plan; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that neither the Company nor any option holder shall in any event be required to take any action inconsistent with the provisions of this Plan.

14.4 GOVERNING LAW. This Plan and each Option shall be governed by the laws of the State of Delaware.

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Chris Watson

KVH Industries

401-845-8138

cwatson@kvh.com

KVH Settles 2004 Securities Class Action and Related Derivative Lawsuits

MIDDLETOWN, RI – July 27, 2007 – KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) announced today that it has reached definitive agreements to settle securities class action claims filed in federal court against the Company and certain of its officers in 2004 on behalf of a class of KVH shareholders, as well as two related derivative lawsuits filed by KVH shareholders against certain of KVH’s directors and officers. Pursuant to the terms of the settlements, plaintiffs and their attorneys will receive an aggregate cash payment of $5.3 million, all of which will be paid by KVH’s insurance carrier. KVH also agreed to adopt, formalize, or reconfirm adherence to certain corporate governance policies and practices. The settlements are subject to notice to shareholders and approval by the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island and the Rhode Island Superior Court.

“KVH is pleased to have reached this settlement in order to avoid the time and expense involved in proceeding to trial. It is also important to note that, under the terms of the settlement, KVH does not admit to any wrongdoing by the company or its officers,” said Patrick Spratt, KVH’s chief financial officer.

About KVH Industries, Inc.

KVH Industries, Inc. (www.kvh.com), is a premier manufacturer of systems to provide access to live mobile media ranging from satellite TV to telephone and high-speed Internet for vehicles and vessels as well as a leading source of navigation, pointing, and guidance solutions for maritime, defense, and commercial applications. The company’s products are based on its proprietary mobile satellite antenna and fiber optic technologies. An ISO 9001-certified company, KVH is based in Middletown, Rhode Island.

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        Contact:   

Chris Watson

KVH Industries

401-845-8138

cwatson@kvh.com

KVH Announces Share Repurchase Program

MIDDLETOWN, RI – July 30, 2007 – KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI) announced today that its Board of Directors has authorized a share repurchase program of up to 1 million shares, or approximately 6.7% of the company’s outstanding common stock.

“This decision is a reflection of our confidence in the company’s strategy and our ability to exploit the many opportunities that lie ahead,” said Martin Kits van Heyningen, KVH’s president and chief executive officer. “Our strong balance sheet position and ongoing commitment to the creation of long-term shareholder value prompted us to initiate this share repurchase program. At the same time, we will maintain the financial resources necessary to invest in the strategic growth initiatives that are critical to our continued success.”

Under the program, the company, at management’s discretion, may repurchase shares on the open market from time to time, in privately negotiated transactions or block transactions, or through an accelerated repurchase agreement. The timing of such repurchases will depend on availability of shares, price, market conditions, alternative uses of capital, and applicable regulatory requirements. The program may be modified, suspended or terminated at any time without prior notice.

About KVH Industries, Inc.

KVH Industries, Inc., is a premier manufacturer of systems to provide access to live mobile media ranging from satellite TV to telephone and high-speed Internet for vehicles and vessels as well as a leading source of navigation, pointing, and guidance solutions for maritime, defense, and commercial applications. The company’s products are based on its proprietary mobile satellite antenna and fiber optic technologies. An ISO 9001-certified company, KVH is based in Middletown, Rhode Island.

 


This document contains “forward-looking statements” – that is, statements related to future, not past, events. In this context, forward-looking statements often address our expected future business and financial performance, and often contain words such as “expect,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” believe,” “seek,” or “will.” Forward-looking statements by their nature address matters that are, to different degrees, uncertain. For us, particular uncertainties that could adversely or positively affect our future results include: the functionality, characteristics, quality and performance of KVH’s products and technology; anticipated innovation and product development; and customer preferences, requirements and expectations. These uncertainties may cause our actual future results to be materially different than those expressed in our forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause such differences include, among others, those discussed in KVH’s most recent Form 10-Q filed with the SEC. KVH does not assume any obligation to update its forward-looking statements to reflect new information or developments.

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