---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001097149-21-000058"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALGN"
cik: "0001097149"
company_name: "ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC"
filed_at: "2021-09-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-29T06:00:23.340477+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Align Technology names Raj Pudipeddi chief product/marketing officer and managing director for Asia Pacific

## Summary
- Raj Pudipeddi adds role of managing director for Asia Pacific, succeeding Julie Tay who remains as SVP commercial strategy through Feb 2022.
- Srini Kaza promoted to SVP, Product R&D, reporting directly to CEO Joe Hogan.
- Pudipeddi has 26 years experience including Procter & Gamble and Bharti Airtel; Tay drove regional growth since 2013.
- Asia Pacific commercial organization transitions effective September 2, 2021.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001097149-21-000058
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALGN
- cik: 0001097149
- company_name: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
- filed_at: 2021-09-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714921000058/0001097149-21-000058-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714921000058/algn-20210902.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001097149-21-000058
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001097149-21-000058.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Julie Tay changed role as senior vice president and managing director, Asia Pacific at ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC.
  - Role: senior vice president and managing director, Asia Pacific
  source text: Mr. Pudipeddi succeeds Julie Tay, the Company’s senior vice president and managing director, Asia Pacific, who will remain with the Company through February 2022 in order to assist with the transition and provide support for the Company’s annual strategic planning process.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714921000058/0001097149-21-000058-index.htm
- Executive change
  Raj Pudipeddi changed role as managing director, Asia Pacific at ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC.
  - Action: assume
  - Role: managing director, Asia Pacific
  source text: On September 2, 2021, Align Technology, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Raj Pudipeddi, the Company’s chief product and marketing officer and senior vice president, will assume the additional role of managing director for the Asia Pacific region effective September 2, 2021.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714921000058/0001097149-21-000058-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.