2007 Executive Compensation and Stock Option Awards Agreement for Robert Portman and Stephen Kuchen

Summary

This agreement outlines the 2007 base salaries and stock option awards for Robert Portman (Chairman, President, CEO, Chief Scientific Officer, and Director) and Stephen Kuchen (CFO, COO, and Director) of the company. Portman will receive a $295,000 salary and 275,000 stock options, while Kuchen will receive a $150,000 salary and 50,000 stock options. The options have an exercise price of $1.13 per share and vest in equal annual installments over three years starting December 13, 2007. The awards are governed by the company's stock option plans or similar terms.

EX-10.3 4 ex10-3.htm EXHIBIT 10.3 Exhibit 10.3

Exhibit 10.3

 
Name
 
Title
2007 Base Salary (1)
Option Awards (2)
Robert Portman
Chairman, President, CEO, Chief Scientific Officer and Director
 
$295,000
275,000
Stephen Kuchen
 
CFO, COO and Director
$150,000
50,000

(1) All salary increases will be effective as of January 1, 2007.
(2) Represents the number of shares of common stock of the Company underlying the option award. All of the options have an exercise price of $1.13 per share, the closing price, on the date of the grant, of the Company’s common stock, par value $.0025 per share (the “Common Stock”), on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. The stock option award to Robert Portman is not part of, or issued under, any stock option plan, but the terms and conditions of such award are similar to those set forth in the Company’s 2000 Incentive Stock Option Plan. The Option Certificate granting the options to Robert Portman is filed as Exhibit 10.1 hereto. The stock option award to Stephen Kuchen was granted under the Company’s 1995 Incentive Stock Option Plan. The Option Certificate granting the options to Stephen Kuchen is filed as Exhibit 10.2 hereto. Each of the options vests over a three-year period in equal, annual installments beginning on December 13, 2007.