28 ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS CHINA – GENERAL COUNSEL PROFILES 2024 APRIL 2024 Ning Sun 孙宁 Align Technology, Inc. VP and Regional General Counsel, APAC Number of Years as General Counsel: 8 years 爱齐科技公司 亚太区法务副总裁 担任总法律顾问时长：8 年 Since taking on her role, Ning Sun has led Align’s APAC Legal and Compliance team to become a trusted legal guardian and strategic business partner, proactively providing legal advice on strategic decisions, navigating through complex risk factors and improving process efficiency to drive continuous business and organization growth. Sun’s team is relatively lean with each team member playing a critical role to cover a broad geographic area including 18+ markets in APAC with diversities in language, culture and legal systems. While having highly capable lawyers support daily operations of each local market, she has led the establishment of regional centers of excellence in data privacy, intellectual property and competition law, led by subject matter experts to build and manage knowledge, stay updated on legal developments and help company make sound plans and avoid risks. Sun places particular emphasis on leading her team to support the company's innovative initiatives. For instance, her team works closely with business to commercialize innovative products and services, pilot new business models, build governance for and life cycle risk manage commercial programs. Additionally, the team actively explores legal operations technologies to make legal work more efficient, such as automating hundreds of contract reviews and launching an APAC-wide online portal to provide employees with easier access to legal & compliance policies, trainings, templates and empower them with self-service tools. In areas such as dispute resolution, intellectual property, compliance, and data privacy, Sun leads her team in constantly adapting to new trends and building forwarding look capabilities to explore solutions that optimize both business and legal effectiveness, thus facilitating the steady development of the business. Business partner testimonial Ning Sun not only provides comprehensive advice and guidance to the business teams but also has the foresight to anticipate and interpret regulatory policies, significantly contributing to the company's policy formulation and strategic planning. She also possesses a deep understanding of cutting-edge technology and leads her team in actively embracing new technologies to improve work efficiency. —Pengfei Gu, Senior Director of APAC Commercial Technology, Align Technology How to become an outstanding GC? 1) Solid professional knowledge and ethical standards; 2) In-depth understanding and foresight of the industry and market status and development trends; 3) Outstanding leadership to motivate and nurture legal talent, expand team influence, set industry benchmarks; 4) Flexible business thinking and profound empathy, understanding and supporting business development and innovation, seeking collaborative and win-win opportunities; 5) In the face of fierce business competition, maintaining and promoting the right values, leading the team to seek the best balance between building a healthy corporate compliance culture and supporting business development. 履职以来，孙宁带领爱齐亚太区法务部，为公司战略决 策积极提供法律意见，为公司防范复杂风险，并通过不断 提高效率，促进业务和组织稳健发展，成为了公司内部各 部门值得信赖的法律“守门人”，以及战略性业务伙伴。 孙宁所带领的团队人员精炼，但为爱齐科技在亚太地 区超过18个市场的运营提供支持。在分工支持具体市场 的运营工作外，她还带领团队设立区域性数据隐私、知识 产权和竞争法卓越中心，以保障及时跟进当地市场法律发 展，助力公司防范风险、做出正确的商业决策。孙宁特别 强调带领团队支持公司创新成果。例如团队深度参与了公 司各个重大数字化转型项目的前期讨论，确保项目合规进 行；此外，团队自身也积极实现数字化解决方案，例如设立 爱齐法务合规网站，为业务部门提供一站式的服务平台和 资源共享中心。 在争议解决、知识产权、合规、数据隐私等方面，孙宁也 带领团队不断拥抱变化，探索商业效果和法律效果最佳的 解决方案，助力业务稳健发展。 业务伙伴评价 孙宁不仅仅在专业知识领域给予业务团队全面的建议 与指导，而且能够前瞻性的对法规政策进行洞察和解读， 对于公司的政策制定以及战略规划有重大帮助。孙宁还对 前沿科技有深入的了解，并且带领她的团队积极拥抱新科 技，提升工作效率，给公司的科技创新保驾护航。 ——顾鹏飞，爱齐科技亚太区商业技术高级总监 对于优秀总法所具备特质的理解 1. 扎实的专业知识和职业素养； 2. 对所在行业和市场现状及发展趋势的深度了解和远见； 3. 卓越的领导力（激励、培养法律人才，扩大团队影响力、 树立行业标杆）； 4. 灵活的商业思维、深度同理心，理解并支持业务发展及 创新，寻求共创和共赢的格局和能力； 5. 在激烈的商业竞争中能坚守及输出正确的价值观，带 领团队在建设健康的公司合规文化和支持业务发展两 者之间寻求最佳平衡及共赢。 Align Technology is a global medical device company that is changing lives through better smiles. Align reimagines and reinvents the way orthodontic and restorative treatment is presented and delivered to millions of people around the world through the digital workflow powered by the Invisalign® System of clear aligners, iTero™ intraoral scanners and exocad™ CAD/CAM software. 爱齐科技设计、制造并提供世界上知名的隐形矫治系 统——隐适美系统，iTero口内扫描仪与服务，以及exocad CAD/CAM软件。爱齐科技成立至今超过26年，致力于为医 生及其患者带来优质的诊疗体验，以实现帮助广大患者“ 重塑笑容，改变人生”的美好愿景。
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