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The following is an excerpt from a DEF 14A SEC Filing, filed by KEYNOTE SYSTEMS INC on 2/27/2003.

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

The following table presents compensation information for the fiscal years ending September 30, 2000, 2001 and 2002 paid or accrued to our Chief Executive Officer and our four other most highly compensated executive officers who were serving as executive officers as of September 30, 2002.

                           Summary Compensation Table



                                                                                                   Long Term
                                                                                                  Compensation
                                                                                                  ------------
                                                            Annual Compensation                      Awards
                                                  ----------------------------------------        ------------
                                                                                                   Securities
                                        Fiscal                               Other Annual          Underlying
Name and Principal Position              Year      Salary        Bonus       Compensation           Options
------------------------------------    ------    ---------    ---------    --------------        ------------
Umang Gupta                               2002    $ 244,072    $ 100,000    $          -             1,300,000
Chief Executive Officer                   2001      200,645          -                 -                   -
                                          2000      200,860      150,000               -               300,000

John Flavio                               2002      198,426       19,262               -                70,000
Senior Vice President of Finance and      2001      185,148       13,933               -                75,000
Chief Financial Officer                   2000      173,713       36,500               -                30,000

Lloyd Taylor                              2002      186,251       25,608               -                60,000
Vice President of Operations              2001      179,588          -                 -                76,000
                                          2000      164,984       14,630               -                30,000

Donald Aoki                               2002      185,794       22,302               -                50,000
Vice President of Engineering             2001      179,154       14,875               -               120,000
                                          2000      168,842        8,500               -                30,000

Richard Rudolph                           2002      153,125          -              25,216 (1)         150,000
Vice President of Worldwide Sales         2001          -            -                 -                   -
                                          2000          -            -                 -                   -



(1) Represents an allowance for certain travel expenses.

Option Grants in Fiscal 2002

The following table presents the grants of stock options under our 1999 Equity Incentive Plan during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2002 to our Chief Executive Officer and our four other most highly compensated executive officers who were serving as executive officers as of September 30, 2002.

                                                 Individual Grants                          Potential Realizable Value
                            ------------------------------------------------------------                at
                                                                                              Assumed Annual Rates of
                            Number of        Percent of                                      Stock Price Appreciation
                            Securities      Total Options                                               for
                            Underlying       Granted to         Exercise                            Option Term
                             Options        Employees in          Price       Expiration    ---------------------------
Name                         Granted         Fiscal 2002        Per Share        Date           5%             10%
------------------------    ----------      -------------      -----------    ----------    -----------    ------------
Umang Gupta                  1,300,000               28.9 %    $      7.52     11-11-11     $ 6,148,074    $ 15,580,426

John Flavio                     30,000                0.7             7.52     11-11-11         141,879         359,548
                                40,000                0.9             7.27     06-30-12         182,883         463,460

Lloyd Taylor                    60,000                1.3             7.27     06-30-12         274,324         695,190

Donald Aoki                     50,000                1.1             7.27     06-30-12         228,603         579,325

Richard Rudolph                150,000                3.3             8.65     12-16-11         815,991       2,067,881

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All options granted under our 1999 Equity Incentive Plan are either incentive stock options or nonstatutory stock options. Options granted under our 1999 Equity Incentive Plan generally vest and become exercisable over a four-year period as to 25% of the shares subject to the option one year from the date of grant and as to 2.083% of the shares each succeeding month. Options expire 10 years from the date of grant. Options were granted at an exercise price equal to the fair market value of our common stock. In the year ending September 30, 2002, we granted to our employees options to purchase a total of 4,498,853 shares of our common stock.

Potential realizable values are computed by:

• multiplying the number of shares of common stock subject to a given option by the market price per share of our common stock on the date of grant;

• assuming that the aggregate option exercise price derived from that calculation compounds at the annual 5% or 10% rates shown in the table for the entire 10 year term of the option; and

• subtracting from that result the aggregate option exercise price.

The 5% and 10% assumed annual rates of stock price appreciation are required by the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission and do not represent our estimate or projection of future common stock prices. The closing price per share of our common stock as reported on the NASDAQ National Market on September 30, 2002, was $6.57.

Aggregated Option Exercises in Fiscal 2002 and Option Values at September 30, 2002

The following table presents the number of shares of common stock subject to vested and unvested stock options held as of September 30, 2002 by our Chief Executive Officer and our four other most highly compensated executive officers who were serving as executive officers as of September 30, 2002. None of these individuals exercised stock options during the fiscal year ended September 30, 2002 or held in-the-money options as of September 30, 2002, based on $6.57, the closing price per share of our common stock on September 30, 2002, as reported on the NASDAQ National Market.

                                                                          Number of
                                                                    Securities Underlying       Value of Unexercised
                                       Number of                     Unexercised Options       In-the-Money Options at
                                        Shares                      at September 30, 2002        September 30, 2002
                                       Acquired        Value       -----------------------    -------------------------
Name                                  on Exercise     Realized      Vested       Unvested      Vested         Unvested
--------------------------------      -----------    ----------    ---------     ---------    ---------       ---------
Umang Gupta                                -         $        -      487,500     1,112,500    $       -       $       -

John Flavio                                -                  -      125,831       191,669            -               -

Lloyd Taylor                               -                  -       47,353       147,815            -               -

Donald Aoki                                -                  -       71,249       172,501            -               -

Richard Rudolph                            -                  -            -       150,000            -               -



Each of the options granted to the optionees listed in the table above generally vests and becomes exercisable over a four-year period as to 25% of the shares subject to the option one year from the date of grant and as to 2.083% of the shares each succeeding month. In the case of options as to which we have a right to repurchase any unvested shares, this right generally lapses over a four-year period as to 25% of the shares subject to the option one year from the date of grant and as to 2.083% of the shares each succeeding month. As of September 30, 2002, Mr. Taylor held 12,500 shares subject to our right of repurchase.

Employment Agreement with Chief Executive Officer

We entered into an employment agreement with Umang Gupta, our Chief Executive Officer, in December 1997 and amended this agreement in November 2001. This agreement, as amended, establishes Mr. Gupta's

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annual base salary and eligibility for benefits and bonuses. This agreement continues until it is terminated upon written notice by Mr. Gupta or us. We must pay Mr. Gupta his salary and other benefits through the date of any termination of his employment. If his employment is terminated by us without cause or through his constructive termination due to a material reduction in his salary or benefits, a material change in his responsibilities or a sale of us if he is not the Chief Executive Officer of the resulting combined company, we must also pay his salary for six additional months after that date.

In connection with the November 2001 amendment of this agreement, Mr. Gupta was granted an option to purchase 1,300,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $7.52 per share. This option is immediately exercisable, subject to our right to repurchase the shares of common stock upon termination of his employment. This option vested as to 20,833 shares on January 7, 2002, vests as to 33,333 shares each month thereafter for 24 months and then vests as to 20,833 shares each month thereafter.

Under the agreement, as amended, all shares subject to Mr. Gupta's options will vest in full 90 days following a sale of us if Mr. Gupta is not the Chief Executive Officer of the resulting combined company. If his employment is terminated by us without cause or through his voluntary termination, and if he assists in the transition to a successor Chief Executive Officer, vesting of the shares subject to his options will continue for an additional 12 months. If his employment is terminated by us without cause or due to his death or through his constructive termination due to a material reduction in his salary or benefits or a material change in his responsibilities, the shares subject to his options will vest in an amount equal to the number that would vest during the six months following this termination. If his employment is terminated by us for cause or due to his disability or through his voluntarily termination, the vesting of any shares subject to his options will cease on the date of termination.

Other Change-of-Control Arrangements

The options that we grant to our executive officers, other than our Chief Executive Officer, as described above, under our 1999 Equity Incentive Plan generally provide for acceleration of the vesting of such options upon the occurrence of specified events. If the executive officer is terminated without cause following a sale of our company that occurs 12 or more months after the date of grant of the option, that option vests immediately with respect to all of the shares subject to that option. For the purposes of this provision, a sale of our company includes any sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or any merger or consolidation of us with or into any other corporation, corporations, or other entity in which more than 50% of our voting power is transferred. For purposes of this provision, cause means (i) willfully engaging in gross misconduct that is materially and demonstrably injurious to us; (ii) willful and continued failure to substantially perform the executive officer's duties (other than incapacity due to physical or mental illness), provided that this failure continues after our Board of Directors has provided the executive officer with a written demand for substantial performance, setting forth in detail the specific respects in which it believes the executive officer has willfully and not substantially performed his or her duties and a reasonable opportunity (to be not less than 30 days) to cure the failure. A termination without cause includes a termination of employment by an executive officer within 30 days following any one of the following events: (x) a 10% or more reduction in the executive officer's salary that is not part of a general salary reduction plan applicable to all officers of the successor company; (y) a change in the executive officer's position or status to a position that is not at the level of Vice President or above with the successor; or (z) relocating the executive officer's principal place of business, in excess of fifty (50) miles from the current location of such principal place of business.

The options that we grant to our non-employee directors under the automatic option grant provision of our 1999 Equity Incentive Plan provide that any unvested shares subject to these options will become immediately exercisable upon a transaction that results in a change of control.

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