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Compensation Committee Charter
The Board of Directors of CardioTech International, Inc. hereby
establishes the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors
with the following purposes, authority, powers, duties and responsibilities:
1. Members. The Board of Directors
shall appoint a Compensation Committee of at least three (3)
members, consisting entirely of "independent" directors
of the Board, and shall designate one (1) member as chairperson.
"Independent director" means a director who meets
the definition of "independence" within the rules
and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") and the American Stock Exchange, as
determined by the Board of Directors. Each appointed member
of the Compensation Committee will be subject to annual reconfirmation
and may be removed by the Board of Directors at any time.
2. Purposes, Duties and Responsibilities.
The Compensation Committee advises the Board of Directors with respect
to the compensation of our senior employees and determines certain
compensation awards for executives, employees who may be related
to our officers or Directors, and our others employed who the Board
may so designate, from time to time, as subject to Compensation
Committee review. Specifically, the Compensation Committee will:
- Review annually our compensation philosophies
and objectives and the elements of compensation and make recommendations
to the full Board with respect to its adoption.
- Review, determine and recommend
to the Board of Directors for approval the individual elements
of the total compensation for the Chief Executive Officer
("CEO") who must not be present during the voting
or deliberations of the Compensation Committee with respect
to the compensation matters of the CEO.
- Review, determine and recommend to the Board
of Directors for approval the individual elements of the total
compensation of all other executive officers (other than the CEO),
those employees who are related to our officers or Directors,
and others who from time to time the Board may so designate as
subject to Compensation Committee review.
- Review and analyze the appropriateness and
adequacy of our annual, periodic or long-term incentive compensation
programs and other benefit plans and assure that they are administered
in a manner consistent with their terms, our compensation strategy
and applicable rules and regulations.
- Make awards to those employees subject to
Compensation Committee review under the incentive stock option
plans and other plans as may be adopted by us.
- Prepare and approve reports on the Compensation
Committee's compensation policies applicable to our executive
officers, the factors and criteria on which the CEO's compensation
was based, and such other matters as may be required by the applicable
rules and regulations of the SEC, the American Stock Exchange
and other regulatory authorities, including without limitation
the report required by Item 407 of SEC Regulation S-K.
- Review and discuss with our management the
Compensation Discussion and Analysis required by Item 402 of SEC
Regulation S-K, and based on such review and discussion, recommend
to the Board that the Compensation Discussion and Analysis be
included in our annual report or proxy statement, as applicable.
- Review, recommend to the Board
of Directors, and administer all plans that require "disinterested
administration" under Rule 16b-3 under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934.
- Approve the amendment or modification
of any compensation or benefit plans pertaining to those
subject to Compensation Committee review that do not require
shareholders' approval.
- Review and recommend to the Board
of Directors changes to the outside directors' compensation.
- Retain and set the compensation
for outside consultants or advisors, including without limitation
legal counsel or independent compensation consultants, and
obtain assistance from members of management as the Compensation
Committee deems appropriate in the exercise of its authority.
- Make reports and recommendations
to the Board of Directors within the scope of the Compensation
Committee's functions.
- Approve all special perquisites,
special cash payments and other special compensation and
benefit arrangements for those employees subject to Compensation
Committee review.
- Review the Compensation Committee Charter
from time to time and recommend any changes thereto to the Board
of Directors, and ensure that a copy of the Compensation Committee
Charter will be available on the our website.
3. Meetings. The Compensation
Committee will meet as often as it deems necessary or appropriate,
in its judgment, either in person or telephonically, and at
such times and places as the Committee determines. The majority
of the members of the Compensation Committee constitutes a
quorum and shall be empowered to act on behalf of the Compensation
Committee. The Compensation Committee may, from time to time,
delegate authority to subcommittees consisting of one or more
members as it shall deem appropriate, subject to such reporting
to or ratification by the Compensation Committee as the Compensation
Committee shall direct. Minutes will be kept of each meeting
of the Compensation Committee and any subcommittees thereof.
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