Daisuke Iwase is the CEO of Animoca Brands KK, a strategic subsidiary in Japan of Animoca Brands Corporation Limited, a leading global Web3 company based in Hong Kong. Prior to that, he was Group Chief Digital Officer for AIA Group and served on its Group Executive Committee. Before AIA, he co-founded and served as Representative Director and President of Lifenet Insurance Company, a publicly listed digital life insurance company in Japan. He currently serves as Vice Chairman of the Board for Benesse Holdings, and as a Non Executive Director at Kakaku.com. Daisuke graduated as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School and was named as Young Global Leaders 2010 by the World Economic Forum.