Advisory Board

Eldar Edmond Grady is the chief executive officer of PPLI.com and the owner of Talniri Ltd, the company that owns the site. He acquired PPLI.com in 2020 and has led its strategy, research and partnerships ever since. He came to private placement life insurance from the capital markets, with extensive experience in investing, including hedge fund strategies, and as an entrepreneur he has initiated and closed a wide range of transactions. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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 centers 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.

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).

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.

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.

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.