Align Technology, Inc. announced that after nearly six years with Align, Yuval Shaked, executive vice president and managing director of iTero scanner and services, has decided to leave the company for personal reasons and spend more time with his family. He will remain with Align and continue as a member of Align Technology President and CEO Joe Hogan's staff supporting strategic initiatives and programs through 2023. Mr. Shaked will transition his role to Karim Boussebaa, who will join Align on February 27 and assume the role of executive vice president and managing director of iTero scanner and services, effective immediately.

Karim Boussebaa is an experienced healthcare executive with more than 28 years of industry leadership and a proven track record in innovation and organizational development, and has extensive regulatory experience. Mr. Boussebaa spent nearly 12 years leading various business units and technologies at Philips Healthcare, in the US and the Netherlands. He was most recently senior vice president, business leader, Philips Image Guided Therapy Systems (IGTS), where he was responsible for both cath labs fixed systems and mobile systems, the market leader in interventional cardiovascular with operations in three global sites, spanning 200 global markets with diverse clinical segments (Coronary, Vascular, Electro-physiology, Structural Heart, Neurovascular, Oncology, Surgery).

Prior to his 16 years at Philips, Mr. Boussebaa spent nearly 10 years at GE Healthcare in various leadership positions in mammography, X-ray, cardiovascular, and mobile surgery businesses.