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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001097149-25-000069"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ALGN"
cik: "0001097149"
company_name: "ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:12:31.770320+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Align Technology terminates EVP HR Stuart Hockridge, effective May 2026

## Summary
- Stuart Hockridge, EVP Global Human Resources, terminated effective May 2026.
- Termination is not for cause; severance per 2016 employment agreement and 2025 proxy disclosure.
- No successor named; Hockridge's departure is planned for approximately 8 months out.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001097149-25-000069
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ALGN
- cik: 0001097149
- company_name: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714925000069/0001097149-25-000069-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1097149/000109714925000069/algn-20250912.htm

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