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51 West 52 nd
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Joseph R. Ianniello
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c/o CBS Corporation
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51 West 52nd Street
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New York, NY 10019
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Dear Joe:
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as of July 20, 2009
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CBS Corporation (“
CBS ”), having an address at 51 West 52
nd Street, New York, New York 10019, agrees to employ
you and you agree to accept such employment upon the following
terms and conditions:
1.
Term
. The term of your employment under this agreement (the “
Agreement ”) shall commence on July 20, 2009
(the “ Effective Date ”) and, unless
earlier terminated under this Agreement, shall expire on July 20,
2013 (the “ Expiration Date ”). The
period from the Effective Date through the Expiration Date is
referred to herein as the “ Term ”
notwithstanding any earlier termination of your employment for any
reason.
2.
Duties . You will serve as the Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer, and you agree to perform all duties
reasonable and consistent with that office as the President and
Chief Executive Officer of CBS (the “ CEO
”) may assign to you from time to time. You agree to devote
your entire business time, attention and energies to the business
of CBS. Your principal place of employment will be CBS’s
executive offices in the New York metropolitan area;
provided , however , that you will be required to
render services in the Los Angeles metropolitan area and elsewhere
upon request for business reasons.
(a)
Salary. For all the services rendered by you in any capacity
under this Agreement, CBS agrees to pay you base salary (“
Salary ”) at the rate of One Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($1,500,000) per annum, less applicable
deductions and withholding taxes, in accordance with CBS’s
payroll practices as they may exist from time to time. Your Salary
shall be reviewed annually and may be increased, but not decreased.
Any increase shall be made at a time, and in an amount, that CBS
shall
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determine in its
discretion.
(b)
Bonus Compensation . You also shall be eligible to receive
annual bonus compensation (“ Bonus ”)
during your employment with CBS under this Agreement, determined
and payable as follows:
(i) Your
Bonus for each calendar year during your employment with CBS under
this Agreement will be determined in accordance with the guidelines
of the CBS short-term incentive program (the “
STIP ”), as such guidelines may be amended from
time to time without notice in the discretion of CBS.
(ii) Your
target bonus (“ Target Bonus ”) for each
calendar year during your employment with CBS under this Agreement
shall be 200% of your Salary in effect on November 1 st
of the calendar year.
(iii)
Your Bonus for any calendar
year shall be payable, less applicable deductions and withholding
taxes, between January 1 st and March 15 th
of the following calendar year
(iv) If,
prior to the last day of a calendar year, your employment with CBS
terminates, you may be entitled to payment of a prorated bonus
based on then current CBS policy, as in effect from time to time,
payable in accordance with paragraph 3(b)(iii).
(c)
Long-Term Incentive Compensation. You shall be eligible to
receive annual grants of long-term incentive compensation under the
CBS Corporation 2009 Long-Term Incentive Plan (or any successor
plan thereto) (the “ LTIP ”), as may be
amended from time to time without notice in the discretion of CBS.
You shall have a target long-term incentive value equal to Three
Million Dollars ($3,000,000). The precise amount, form and timing
of any such long-term incentive award, if any, shall be determined
in the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the CBS Board of
Directors (the “ Committee ”).
4.
Benefits . You shall be eligible to participate in all CBS
vacation, medical, dental, life insurance, long-term disability
insurance, retirement, long-term incentive and other benefit plans
and programs applicable generally to other senior executives of CBS
and its subsidiaries, in accordance with the terms of the plans, as
may be amended from time to time. This provision shall not be
construed to either require CBS to establish any welfare,
compensation or long-term incentive plans, or to prevent the
modification or termination of any plan once established, and no
action or inaction with respect to any plan shall affect this
Agreement.
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As of July 20, 2009
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5.
Business Expenses . During your employment under this
Agreement, CBS shall reimburse you for such reasonable travel and
other expenses incurred in the performance of your duties as are
customarily reimbursed to CBS executives at comparable levels. Such
travel and other expenses shall be reimbursed by CBS as soon as
practicable in accordance with CBS’s established guidelines,
as may be amended from time to time, but in no event later than
December 31 st of the calendar year following the
calendar year in which you incur the related expenses.
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Non-Competition, Confidential
Information, Etc .
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(a)
Non-Competition . You agree that your employment with CBS is
on an exclusive basis and that, while you are employed by CBS or
any of its subsidiaries, you will not engage in any other business
activity which is in conflict with your duties and obligations
(including your commitment of time) under this Agreement. You
further agree that, during the Non-Compete Period (as defined
below), you shall not directly or indirectly engage in or
participate in (or negotiate or sign any agreement to engage in or
participate in), whether as an owner, partner, stockholder,
officer, employee, director, agent of or consultant for, any
business which at such time is competitive with any business of
CBS, or any of its subsidiaries, without the written consent of
CBS; provided , however , that this provision shall
not prevent you from investing as less than a one (1%) percent
stockholder in the securities of any company listed on a national
securities exchange or quoted on an automated quotation system. The
Non-Compete Period shall cover the period during your employment
with CBS and shall continue following the termination of your
employment for any reason, including by expiration of this
Agreement for the greater of: (i) twelve (12) months; or
(ii) for so long as any payments are due to you pursuant to
paragraph 7(b) or 7(c) of this Agreement, subject to CBS’s
acceptance of your written request pursuant to paragraph 6(j) of
this Agreement, if any.
(b)
Confidential Information . You agree that, during the Term
and at any time thereafter, (i) you shall not use for any purpose
other than the duly authorized business of CBS, or disclose to any
third party, any information relating to CBS, or any of CBS’s
affiliated companies which is non-public, confidential or
proprietary to CBS or any of CBS’s affiliated companies
(“ Confidential Information ”), including
any trade secret or any written (including in any electronic form)
or oral communication incorporating Confidential Information in any
way (except as may be required by law or in the performance of your
duties under this Agreement consistent with CBS’s policies);
and (ii) you will comply with any and all confidentiality
obligations of CBS to a third party, whether arising under a
written agreement or otherwise. Information shall not be deemed
Confidential Information which ( x ) is or becomes generally
available to the public other than as a result of a disclosure by
you or at your direction or by any other person who directly or
indirectly receives such information from you, or ( y ) is
or becomes available to you on a non-confidential basis from a
source which is entitled to
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disclose it to you. For purposes of
this paragraph 6(b), the term “third party” shall be
defined to mean (x) with respect to the Confidential Information of
CBS and its subsidiaries , any person other than CBS and its
subsidiaries or any of their respective directors and senior
officers, and (y) with respect to the Confidential Information of
CBS’s affiliated companies which are not subsidiaries of CBS,
any person other than CBS, CBS’s affiliated companies or any
of their respective directors and senior officers.
(c)
No Solicitation, Etc . You agree that, while employed by CBS
and for the greater of twelve (12) months thereafter or for so long
as payments are due to you pursuant to paragraph 7(b) or 7(c) of
this Agreement, you shall not, directly or indirectly:
(i)
employ or
solicit the employment of any person who is then or has been within
twelve (12) months prior thereto, an employee of CBS or any of
CBS’s affiliated companies; or
(ii) do
any act or thing to cause, bring about, or induce any interference
with, disturbance to, or interruption of any of the then-existing
relationships (whether or not such relationships have been reduced
to formal contracts) of CBS or any of CBS’s affiliated
companies with any customer, employee, consultant or
supplier.
(d)
CBS Ownership . The results and proceeds of your services
under this Agreement, including, without limitation, any works of
authorship resulting from your services during your employment with
CBS and/or any of CBS’s affiliated companies and any works in
progress resulting from such services, shall be works-made-for-hire
and CBS shall be deemed the sole owner throughout the universe of
any and all rights of every nature in such works, whether such
rights are now known or hereafter defined or discovered, with the
right to use the works in perpetuity in any manner CBS determines,
in its discretion, without any further payment to you. If, for any
reason, any of such results and proceeds are not legally deemed a
work-made-for-hire and/or there are any rights in such results and
proceeds which do not accrue to CBS under the preceding sentence,
then you hereby irrevocably assign and agree to assign any and all
of your right, title and interest thereto, including, without
limitation, any and all copyrights, patents, trade secrets,
trademarks and/or other rights of every nature in the work, whether
now known or hereafter defined or discovered, and CBS shall have
the right to use the work in perpetuity throughout the universe in
any manner CBS determines, in its discretion, without any further
payment to you. You shall, as may be requested by CBS from time to
time, do any and all things which CBS may deem useful or desirable
to establish or document CBS’s rights in any such results and
proceeds, including, without limitation, the execution of
appropriate copyright, trademark and/or patent applications,
assignments or similar documents and, if you are unavailable or
unwilling to execute such documents, you hereby irrevocably
designate the Executive Vice President, General Counsel,
CBS
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Corporation or his designee as your
attorney-in-fact with the power to execute such documents on your
behalf. To the extent you have any rights in the results and
proceeds of your services under this Agreement that cannot be
assigned as described above, you unconditionally and irrevocably
waive the enforcement of such rights. This paragraph 6(d) is
subject to, and does not limit, restrict, or constitute a waiver by
CBS of any ownership rights to which CBS may be entitled by
operation of law by virtue of being your employer.
(i) You
agree that during the Term and for twelve (12) months thereafter
or, if later, during the pendency of any litigation or other
proceeding, ( x ) you shall not communicate with anyone
(other than your own attorneys and tax advisors), except to the
extent necessary in the performance of your duties under this
Agreement, with respect to the facts or subject matter of any
pending or potential litigation, or regulatory or administrative
proceeding involving CBS, or any of CBS’s affiliated
companies, other than any litigation or other proceeding in which
you are a party-in-opposition, without giving prior notice to CBS
or its counsel; and ( y ) in the event that any other party
attempts to obtain information or documents from you with respect
to such matters, either through formal legal process such as a
subpoena or by informal means such as interviews, you shall
promptly notify CBS’s counsel before providing any
information or documents.
(ii) You
agree to cooperate with CBS and its attorneys, both during and
after the termination of your employment, in connection with any
litigation or other proceeding arising out of or relating to
matters in which you were involved or had knowledge of prior to the
termination of your employment. Your cooperation shall include,
without limitation, providing assistance to CBS’s counsel,
experts or consultants, providing truthful testimony in pretrial
and trial or hearing proceedings and any travel related to your
attendance at such proceedings. In the event that your cooperation
is requested after the termination of your employment, CBS will (
x ) seek to minimize interruptions to your schedule to the
extent consistent with its interests in the matter; and ( y
) reimburse you for all reasonable and appropriate out-of-pocket
expenses actually incurred by you in connection with such
cooperation within 60 calendar days following the date on which CBS
receives appropriate documentation with respect to such expenses,
but in no event later than December 31 of the calendar year
following the calendar year in which you incur the related
expenses.
(iii) You
agree that during the Term and at any time thereafter, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, you will not testify voluntarily
in any lawsuit or other proceeding which directly or indirectly
involves CBS, or any of CBS’s affiliated companies, or which
may create the impression that such
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testimony is endors