Yael Coifman

Yael began her career in leisure economics in 1996 and is joint founder of LDP. She has a wealth of experience conducting market and economic testing for both new projects and existing operations, providing services to the development, investment and operations communities. Prior to founding LDP, Yael was a Director at ERA based in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and London. During her 25+ years consulting in the industry, Yael has completed projects in over 60 countries, throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and Asia. Throughout her career, Yael’s experience includes projects around the globe such as theme and waterpark, attraction, museum and themed entertainment resort feasibility, due diligence for sales and acquisitions, economic impact, improvement and development strategy, sports and entertainment venue appraisal, mixed-use development strategy, operator and investor solicitation and several expert witness appearances. Yael has worked with many of the major players in worldwide attractions operations, including Six Flags, Fox Studios, SeaWorld, Universal, Parques Reunidos, Dreamworks, Disney, Warner Bros, DPR, Miral, Qiddiya and KidZania, as well as many museums, corporate brand centres, investment groups, developers and public sector organizations. Over the past years, she has been involved in quite a few projects integrating entertainment into retail destinations. Clients have included INTU, British Land, Westfield, Immochan, IKEA and Europa City amongst others. Corporate attraction clients have included Ben&Jerry’s, Boeing, The World Food centre, Volvo amongst others. Given her broad international experience, she brings global perspective to every project Yael began her career in leisure economics in 1996 and is joint founder of LDP. She has a wealth of experience conducting market and economic testing for both new projects and existing operations, providing services to the development, investment and operations communities.