During Executive’s employment with the Company and its subsidiaries and thereafter, Executive will not divulge, transmit or otherwise disclose (except as legally compelled by court order), directly or indirectly, any confidential knowledge or information with respect to the operations, finances, organization or employees of the Company or its affiliates or with respect to trade secret, intellectual property, confidential processes, services, techniques, customers or plans with respect to the Company and its affiliates, and Executive will not use, directly or indirectly, any confidential or trade secret information of the Company and its affiliates for the benefit of anyone other than the Company or its affiliates; provided , however , that Executive’s employment by a subsequent employer while Executive still has knowledge of any such confidential or trade secret information shall not constitute a breach of this provision so long as Executive does not disclose the same to any third party. All new processes, techniques, know-how, inventions, plans, products, patents and devices developed, made or invented by Executive, alone or with others, while an employee of the Company and its subsidiaries that are related to the business of the Company or its affiliates shall be and become the sole property of the Company, and Executive hereby assigns any and all rights therein or thereto to the Company. All files, records, correspondence, memoranda, notes or other documents (including, without limitation, those in computer-readable form) or property relating or belonging to the Company and its affiliates, whether prepared by Executive or otherwise coming into his possession in the course of the performance of his services, shall be the exclusive property of the Company and shall be delivered to the Company and not retained by Executive (including, without limitation, any copies thereof) upon termination of employment for any reason whatsoever.