EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
This Employment Agreement is made and entered into this 15th day of February, 2006, by and between Alchemy Enterprises, Ltd., a Nevada corporation (the "Company"), and Harold Sciotto, an individual ("Employee").
PREAMBLE
The Board of Directors of the Company recognizes Employee's potential contribution to the growth and success of the Company and desires to assure the Company of Employee's employment in an executive capacity as Chief Financial Officer and to compensate him therefor. Employee wants to be employed by the Company and to commit himself to serve the Company on the terms herein provided.
The Company hereby employs Executive as Chief Financial Officer, subject to the supervision and direction of the Company's Board of Directors.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and of the respective covenants and agreements of the parties, the parties agree as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS
"Benefits" shall mean all the fringe benefits approved by the Board from time to time and established by the Company for the benefit of employees generally and/or for key employees of the Company as a class, including, but not limited to, regular holidays, vacations, absences resulting from illness or accident, health insurance, disability and medical plans (including dental and prescription drug), group life insurance, and pension, profit-sharing and stock bonus plans or their equivalent.
"Board" shall mean the Board of Directors of the Company, together with an executive committee thereof (if any), as same shall be constituted from time to time.
"Cause" for termination shall mean (i) Employee's final conviction of a felony involving a crime of moral turpitude, (ii) acts of Employee which, in the judgment of the Board, constitute willful fraud on the part of Employee in connection with his duties under this Agreement, including but not limited to misappropriation or embezzlement in the performance of duties as an employee of the Company, or willfully engaging in conduct materially injurious to the Company and in violation of the covenants contained in this Agreement, or (iii) gross misconduct, including but not limited to the willful failure of Employee either to (a) continue to obey lawful written instruction of the Board after thirty (30) days notice in writing of Employee's failure to do so and the Board's intention to terminate Employee if such failure is not corrected, or (b) correct any conduct of Employee which constitutes a material breach of this Agreement after thirty (30) days notice in writing of Employee's failure to do so and the Board's intention to terminate Employee if such failure is not corrected.
"Disability" shall mean a written determination by a physician mutually agreeable to the Company and Employee (or, in the event of Employee's total physical or mental disability, Employee's legal representative) that Employee is physically or mentally unable to perform his duties of Chief Financial Officer under this Agreement and that such disability can reasonably be expected to continue for a period of six (6) consecutive months or for shorter periods aggregating one hundred and eighty (180) days in any twelve-(12)-month period.
"Person" shall mean any natural person, incorporated entity, limited or general partnership, business trust, association, agency (governmental or private), division, political sovereign, or subdivision or instrumentality, including those groups identified as "persons" in '' 13(d)(3) and 14(d)(2) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
"Reorganization" shall mean any transaction, or any series of transactions consummated in a 12-month period, pursuant to which any Person acquires (by merger, acquisition, or otherwise) all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or the then outstanding equity securities of the Company and the Company is not the
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surviving entity, the Company being deemed surviving if and only if the majority of the Board of Directors of the ultimate parent of the surviving entity were directors of the Company prior to its organization.
"Territory" shall mean any state of the United States and any equivalent section or area of any country in which the Company has revenue-producing customers or activities.
"Company" shall mean Alchemy Enterprises, Ltd., a Nevada corporation, together with such subsidiaries of the Company as may from time to time exist.
2. POSITION, RESPONSIBILITIES, AND TERM OF EMPLOYMENT.
2.01 Position. Employee shall serve as Chief Financial Officer and in such additional management position(s) as the Board shall designate. In such capacity Employee shall, subject to the bylaws of the Company, and to the direction of the Board, serve the Company by performing such duties and carrying out such responsibilities as are normally related to the positions of Chief Financial Officer in accordance with the standards of the industry. The Board shall either vote, or recommend to the shareholders of the Company, as appropriate, that during the term of employment pursuant to this Agreement: (i) Employee be nominated for election as a director at each meeting of shareholders held for the election of directors; (ii) Employee be elected to and continued in the office of Secretary and Treasurer of the Company and such of its subsidiaries as he may select (and such other office, if any, as shall be denominated that of the Chief Financial Officer of the Company or such subsidiary in the Company's or such subsidiary's Bylaws or other constituent instruments); (iii) Employee be elected to and continued on the Board of each subsidiary of the Company, (iv) if the Board of the Company or any of its subsidiaries shall appoint an executive committee (or similar committee authorized to exercise the general powers of the Board), Employee be elected to and continued on such committee; and (v) neither the Company nor any of its subsidiaries shall confer on any other officer or employee authority, responsibility, powers or prerogatives superior or equal to the authority, responsibility, prerogatives and powers vested in Employee hereunder.
2.02 Best Efforts Covenant. Employee will, to the best of his ability, devote his full professional and business time and best efforts to the performance of his duties for the Company and its subsidiaries and affiliates.
2.03 Confidential Information. Employee recognizes and acknowledges that the Company's trade secrets and proprietary information and know-how, as they may exist from time to time ("Confidential Information"), are valuable, special and unique assets of the Company's business, access to and knowledge of which are essential to the performance of Employee's duties hereunder. Employee will not, during or after the term of his employment by the Company, in whole or in part, disclose such secrets, information or know-how to any Person for any reason or purpose whatsoever, nor shall Employee make use of any s ...
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