Company: ALGN
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001097149-25-000016
Chunk: 117

Company: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-27
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 117
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<div align='center'>Support for Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting</div>

Mr. John Chevedden has notified the Company that he intends to present the following advisory proposal for consideration at the Annual Meeting:

<div align='center'>Proposal 7 – Support for Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting</div>

Shareholders ask our Board of Directors to take the steps necessary to amend the appropriate company governing documents to give the owners of a combined 10% of our outstanding common stock the power to call a special shareholder meeting or the owners of the lowest percentage of shareholders, as governed by state law, the power to call a special shareholder meeting.

A shareholder right to call for a special shareholder meeting, as called for in this proposal, can help make shareholder engagement meaningful. A shareholder right to call for a special shareholder meeting will help ensure that the Align Technology Board and management engages with shareholders in good faith because shareholders will have a viable Plan B by calling for a special shareholder meeting.

To guard against the Align Technology Board of Directors becoming complacent shareholders need the ability to call a special shareholder meeting to help the Board adopt new strategies when the need arises.

This proposal topic is now more important than ever because there has been a mad rush of Board exculpation proposals to limit the financial liability of directors when they violate their fiduciary duty. This is a disincentive for improved director performance. Since a special shareholder meeting can be called to replace a director, adoption of this proposal could foster better performance by our directors.

Companies often claim that shareholders have multiple means to communicate with management but in most cases these means are as effective as mailing a letter to the CEO.

With the widespread use of online shareholder meetings it is much easier for a company to conduct a special shareholder meeting for important issues and Align Technology bylaws thus need to be updated accordingly.

<div align='center'>Please vote yes:

Support for Shareholder Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting– Proposal 7

Statement in Opposition to the Advisory Stockholder Proposal</div>

The Board has carefully considered this advisory proposal and recommends you vote AGAINST it for the reasons described below.

Our Board has carefully considered this advisory proposal and recommends a vote against it. Our Board recommends a vote AGAINST this advisory proposal for the following reasons:

• Proposal 6 better balances stockholder rights with protecting Align’s and our stockholders’ long-term interests.

• Proposal 6 is more consistent with market practice.

• Align has strong corporate governance practices and