He is responsible for leading enterprise-wide corporate development, investor and rating agency relations, corporate finance, capital management, financial reporting, and financial planning and analysis. Max also oversees the company’s efforts to engage investors and rating agencies on a range of issues including the company’s financial performance and corporate governance activities, as well as strategic partnerships and planning. More recently, he has assumed oversight of the company's global investments, risk and actuarial functions, as well as its reinsurance strategy, including Aflac Re Bermuda Ltd.

Prior to joining Aflac, he served as senior portfolio manager for Norges Bank, managing an equity portfolio of diversified global financial and insurance stocks. He also worked for several years at DnB Nor Asset Management in Stockholm and New York and Skandia Asset Management in Stockholm.

Max holds a Master of Science in both accounting and finance from Stockholm School of Economics and is also a CFA charterholder.