Daisuke Iwase is the Group Chief Digital Officer of AIA, responsible for the Group's digital innovation initiatives. He is member of the AIA Group Executive Committee. He joined AIA in July 2018 from Lifenet Insurance Company, a listed digital direct life insurance company in Japan, where he was the Representative Director and President. Mr. Iwase co-founded Lifenet in 2006 and took the company public on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2012. Mr. Iwase started his career as a strategy consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo before establishing the Tokyo office of a US-based technology venture capital firm and later, working in an international private equity firm. He holds an MBA with High Distinction from Harvard Business School and an LLB from The University of Tokyo. In 2010, he was nominated as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.