AIA in June 2018 announced the appointment of Daisuke Iwase as Group Chief Digital Officer (CDO) and a member of the AIA Group Executive Committee.

Mr. Iwase currently serves as President of Lifenet, a listed digital direct life insurance company in Japan, which he co-founded in 2006 and took public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2012. Lifenet provided over US$18.8 billion of insured capital and has more than 260 thousand policies in-force (as of 31 March 2018).

Prior to co-founding Lifenet, Mr. Iwase started his career as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo before establishing the Japan office of a US-based technology venture capital firm and working in an international private equity firm.

He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an LLB from The University of Tokyo.