Lisa Van Ackeren, President and CEO for Personalized Prevention, has been in the insurance industry since 1995. She began her insurance career by developing proactive loss prevention and loss control programs that reduced risk of workplace injury and illness. She developed and coordinated health and safety training programs for employees, supervisors and managers. Van Ackeren was responsible for providing resources and technical assistance to enable employers to comply with applicable state and federal health and safety regulations. Van Ackeren assisted in identifying the risk factors that contribute to losses and the strategies and resources needed to eliminate or control these risk factors.
 
Van Ackeren spent an additional eight years responsible for the strategic management of employee benefits offered to small and large group plan sponsors. She has worked for several national insurance companies in three major markets in Texas (Austin, San Antonio and the Dallas/Fort Worth).

Van Ackeren has experience in health care delivery as well as the Chief Financial Officer of a chain of injury and rehabilitation clinics in North Texas.
 
As a licensed Texas attorney her legal experience includes advising employers and brokers on legal issues relating to health and benefit plans, legislation and regulatory compliance, insurance contracts and corporate matters. Van Ackeren also spent time as a civil litigator handling a broad range of litigation matters including title work, real estate litigation, construction defect litigation, commercial litigation, debt collection, deceptive trade practices and trade secret litigation.
 

Prior to starting Personalized Prevention, Van Ackeren spent time in the creation and management of alternative risk financing mechanisms including Risk Retention Groups and Captive Insurance programs as a Captive Manager.  This became the impetus for creating Personalized Prevention, a Risk Management company designed to identify and reduce risk in self-funded group insurance programs. 
 
Van Ackeren, won the prestigious Rising Star Award in March, 2011.  This award is given by the National Association of Women Business Owners to honor outstanding San Antonio area women business owners who demonstrate the highest levels of professionalism and effective leadership, who are considered visionaries and pioneers of innovation in their chosen fields, who are active in the community, who deliver exceptional customer service, who are advocates for women in business, and who are model employers.
 
Van Ackeren is an alumnus of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas and Texas Wesleyan School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas. Van Ackeren is a member of the State Bar of Texas.
 

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