No Eligible Employee who incurs a Severance during the Change in Control Protection Period or any Former Employee whose Severance Date occurred within the ninety (90) day period ending on the date that the Change in Control is consummated shall be eligible to receive any payments or other benefits under the Plan (other than payment of accrued obligations under Section 2.2 hereof) unless he or she first executes and delivers to the Company a general release in favor of the Company in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit C (the “Release”), and all applicable statutory revocation periods related to such Release shall expire, within sixty (60) days following such Eligible Employee’s Severance Date or, with respect to a Former Employee, the date of the Change in Control.  Subject to Section 2.8 below, the payments and benefits described in Sections 2.3, 2.4 and 2.5 will be paid or provided (or begin to be paid or provided as applicable) as soon as administratively practicable following the date the Release becomes irrevocable,   provided that if the 60-day period begins in one taxable year and ends in a second taxable year such payments or benefits shall not commence until the second taxable year.