Company: ALGN
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001097149-25-000016
Chunk: 88

Company: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 88
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, each director has submitted a contingent, irrevocable resignation that our Board may accept if the director is not re-elected. If that were to occur, our Nominating and Governance Committee would make a recommendation to our Board whether to accept or reject the resignation, or whether to take other action. Our Board would act on the Nominating and Governance Committee's recommendation, and publicly disclose its decision and the rationale behind it within 90 days following the date the election results are certified.

Unless marked otherwise, proxies returned to us will be voted “FOR” each of the Nominees named above. If you hold your shares through a broker, bank or other nominee holder of record you must instruct your broker, bank or other nominee how to vote your shares so that your vote can be counted for this Proposal 1. If you do not provide voting instructions to your broker, bank or other nominee, your shares will be considered “broker non-votes” with regard to this matter. Broker non-votes are counted for the purposes of determining a quorum but will be excluded from determining the number of votes cast.

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#### COMPANY PROPOSAL 2
<div align='center'>Advisory Vote to Approve the Compensation of our Named Executive Officers</div>

In accordance with the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 and Rule 14a-21 under the Exchange Act, and because our Board believes that an annual advisory vote to approve the compensation of our NEOs allows our stockholders to provide us with their direct input on our compensation philosophy, policies and practices described in our proxy statement every year and is consistent with our policy of seeking input from, and engaging in discussions with, our stockholders on these matters.

This vote is not intended to address any specific item of compensation, but rather the overall compensation of our NEOs and the related compensation philosophy, policies, and practices described in this proxy statement.

Accordingly, we are again requesting that you approve, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our NEOs as described in this proxy statement, including the section entitled “Compensation Discussion and Analysis,” the compensation tables and the related narrative disclosure in this proxy statement.

Our compensation program is designed to motivate and reward exceptional performance in a straight-forward and effective way, while also recognizing the success of our business. Our 2024 financial results improved relative to 2023 and in general we achieved our internal financial objectives for the year. The actual compensation paid to our