Key changes at top of AXA
There has been a significant change at the top of AXA Asia Pacific Holdings with the chief executive, AXA Asia Life, Mark Pearson moving to take up a role in Japan and with no immediate announcement of a successor.
The company announced that Pearson would become president and chief executive of AXA Life Japan and AXA Japan Holding.
The company said that Pearson had been in his current role for eight years and that he would be taking up his new role in the third quarter while remaining on a number of Asian boards until the end of the year.
It said that an announcement regarding the appointment of a new CEO AXA Asia Life would be made in due course.
The current president and CEO of AXA Life Japan and AXA Japan Holding, Paul Sampson, is returning to Australia to join his family who have relocated here, but will continue his association with AXA remaining on the AXA Asia Pacific Holdings Board.
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