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4. Release and Waiver of Claims. Attached hereto, as Exhibit A, is a copy of the Release and Waiver of Claims that Executive is required to sign on or within 21 days following the Separation Date and which Executive agrees he shall sign in exchange for the consideration set forth in Section2 above.

Section1. Release and Waiver of Claims. Effective as of , in consideration of the payments, benefits, and other considerations provided to the Executive under the Severance Agreement, the Executive, for the Executive and the Executive’s family, heirs, executors, administrators, legal representatives, and their respective successors and assigns (the “Related Parties”), hereby releases and forever discharges the Company, and all of its parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, divisions and joint ventures, and their respective officers, directors, Executives, agents, parents, stockholders, representatives, employee benefit plans and their successors and assigns (collectively, “Company Entities”), from all rights, claims, demands, suits, causes of action of any kind or nature whatsoever, known or unknown, in law or in equity the Executive ever had, has or may have or which the Related Parties may have, arising at any time on or before the date hereof, based on or arising out of the Executive’s dealings with any Company Entity, including but not limited to any claims arising out of the Executive’s employment with any Company Entity or the termination of that employment, including without limitation any claims under the Severance Agreement, or based on any services provided to any Company Entity by the Executive other than pursuant to an employment relationship with any Company Entity. This includes a release of any and all rights, claims or demands the Executive may have, whether known or unknown, under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”), which prohibits age discrimination in employment; Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment based on race, color, national origin, religion or sex; the Equal Pay Act, which prohibits paying men and women unequal pay for equal work; or under any other federal, state or local laws or regulations regarding employment discrimination or termination of employment. This also includes a release by the Executive of any claims for wrongful discharge or discrimination under any statute, rule, regulation or under the common law, including, without limitation, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

4. Release and Waiver of Claims.For purposes of this section, the term Lenders and Agents specifically include each of Lender’s and Agent’s predecessors, successors, affiliates, and all of their past, present and future officers, trustees, directors, members, agents, contractors, employees, consultants, attorneys, assigns, insurers, stockholders, and representatives, and each of them (whether or not any of the same were acting within or without the scope of employment or engagement).The release and waiver of claims of this section is to be construed broadly in favor of Lenders and Agent and against Borrower and Guarantor.Borrower and Guarantor hereby jointly and severally affirm that they do not have any defense, claim, offset, counterclaim or other claim or action (whether known or unknown) against Lenders or Agent including, but not limited to, with respect to the Loans, the Loan Agreement or the Loan Documents, or arising out of negotiations prior to and/or contemporaneous with the execution of this Amendment, and that even if such claim, action, defense, offset or counterclaim exists or might exist on the date hereof (whether known or unknown), Borrower and Guarantor hereby knowingly and jointly and severally forever waive, release and relinquish the same.Borrower and Guarantor acknowledge that the relationship between Borrower and Guarantor, on the one hand, and Lenders and Agent, on the other hand, has been solely a borrower-lender relationship, that Lenders and Agent have not exercised control over Borrower, Guarantor or any of their respective operations, and that Borrower and Guarantor are not acting under any duress or coercion in connection with the execution of this Amendment.Borrower and Guarantor represent and warrant that they have obtained the advice of independent legal counsel, or have had the opportunity to obtain their own legal counsel and have knowingly declined to obtain such legal counsel, with respect to their execution of this Amendment and the matters set forth herein.