Eldar Edmond Grady
CEO · PPLI.com Writes onHow a PPLI policy works, what it costs, where it is issued, and the tax and regulatory changes that affect families who hold one.
PPLI.com · People and editorial governance
Advisory Board
Six people advise PPLI.com. Three hold roles at the company, and three bring experience from investment research, capital markets and wealth planning at other firms. Each profile below says what the person does and links to a public source for their background. Board membership is an advisory role: it does not mean a member reviewed a particular article, and it does not mean their firm endorses PPLI.com.
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3PPLI.com team
3Outside firms
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People and affiliations
The members and their backgrounds
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Eldar Edmond Grady
Chief Executive Officer · PPLI.com Eldar Edmond Grady is the chief executive officer of PPLI.com and leads its strategy, research and partnerships. He acquired PPLI.com in 2020 and has worked on private placement life insurance ever since. He is also Executive Chairman of TechLott, the company formerly called AppYea, which announced its new name and its new ticker, LOTT, on 3 June 2026 in a release filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. TechLott announcement (SEC filing). LinkedIn profile
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Michael Malloy
CLU · TEP · RFC Founder and Chief Advisor · EWP Financial Michael Malloy is the founder and chief advisor of EWP Financial. His career began in risk-management consulting more than 40 years ago, and his published work centres on private placement life insurance and the firm's Expanded Worldwide Planning approach. EWP Financial biography. Author of The PPLI Papers and The Wit and Wisdom of Professor PPLI. LinkedIn profile
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Doron Cohen
Chief Executive Officer · Tangram Strategic Doron Cohen has led Tangram Strategic as chief executive since 2016 and is also chief financial officer of Galmed Pharmaceuticals. From 1992 to 2017 he was Research Director at Gems Investments Research, where he ran analyst teams covering investments, operations and risk and produced research for hedge funds. Galmed annual report, Item 6 (SEC filing).
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Zury Ilan
Managing Partner, CEO and Chief Analyst · Allamanda Zury Ilan (also written Zur Ilan) is Managing Partner, CEO and Chief Analyst of Allamanda. He has worked as a capital markets analyst since 2004, took on the management of the Gefen hedge funds in 2017, and before that held research roles at Tavor, Cramim and other investment firms. His work focuses on distressed companies, turnarounds, high-yield bonds and debt restructurings, and the fund runs a multi-strategy approach built on tradable investments and long/short positions. Allamanda partner biography. LinkedIn profile
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Noam Cohen
Private Banking and Institutional Relations · PPLI.com Noam Cohen is responsible for PPLI.com's relationships with private banks, family offices, wealth advisers, insurance professionals and other institutions. It is a relationship role within the company, not a licensed banking or advisory position. Institutions that want to discuss working with PPLI.com can reach him through the contact page. LinkedIn profile
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Alona Murciano
Attorney · Economist · University of Haifa Legal Advisor · PPLI.com Alona Murciano is PPLI.com's legal advisor. She has worked with the company since February 2026 and looks after its legal affairs, its contracts and the commercial side of new partnerships. She is an attorney and an economist, and studied at the University of Haifa. Before joining PPLI.com she spent close to five years at Afcon Electric Transportation, part of the Shlomo Group, first as legal counsel from August 2021 and then, from November 2022 to June 2026, as Vice President of Business Legal Affairs. She started out at Epstein Rosenblum Maoz (ERM), where she interned from 2015 and became an associate in 2017, and later worked as an associate at Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. Most of her work has been on commercial transactions, investments and financing, and regulation, in energy, infrastructure, technology and mobility. She advises PPLI.com as a company and does not act for readers or policyholders.
Research and writing
Who writes our research
Five people write the research published on PPLI.com. Four of them sit on the advisory board above, and Gordon Platt, a New York attorney, covers the legal side of PPLI. Each card says what that person writes about and where to read more about them.
J.D., Harvard Law School
Gordon Platt
Attorney · New York Writes onThe legal and tax questions around PPLI: how a policy works alongside irrevocable trusts and asset protection planning, and what changes when a family's affairs cross borders.
Advises high-net-worth families on trusts, estates and PPLI. Summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa at Dartmouth, M.Sc. from the London School of Economics. Before law, an investigative producer at ABC News whose reporting won Emmy, duPont and ABA Silver Gavel awards.
Michael Malloy
Founder · EWP Financial Writes onPolicy design, and where PPLI fits in a family's wider plan when its assets, heirs and residences sit in more than one country.
Doron Cohen
CEO · Tangram Strategic Writes onInvestment research and risk: how to judge the managers and funds a policy can hold, and what to ask before money goes in.
How we check what we publish
Every article lists the sources it relies on and follows the same editorial standards, whoever wrote it.
Mandate and responsibilities
What the board does
Board members advise on the quality and scope of our research: which subjects we cover, which sources we rely on and how our editorial standards are applied. That advice sets the direction; the research and checking behind each article still happen piece by piece. When a member reviews a piece, the article says so, with the subject and the date, and board membership is never presented as legal, tax, actuarial or investment approval of a page. See our editorial standards.
Roles and interests
Each profile states the person's role at PPLI.com or at an outside firm. We do not claim that every member is independent of the company or of every commercial interest. Where a payment, referral or other relationship could affect how you read something, it has to be disclosed. Any professional service offered to you needs its own terms: who provides it, with what permissions and at what fee.
Profiles and their sources were reviewed in September 2026. A member's employer is named for context only; it does not mean that firm sponsors PPLI.com or has approved its research. For what the site covers, read About PPLI.com.
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