Ariel Serber

Director-Risk Management

Ariel Serber is a Director at Lions Financial, where he works to benefit his clients by providing financial services with a keen focus on risk management. Ariel specializes in the key components to consider when evaluating complex insurance policies and management of employee group benefit plans. Ariel supports business accounts to help mitigate risks they face within their company by implementing strategies and products for key-person protection plans, executive benefits, and retirement investments. In three years with Lions  Financial, Ariel has successfully helped executives from large organizations and small businesses achieve their objectives and adapt to a dynamic market. He also partners with other professional advisors to provide tailored insurance products and make actionable financial & estate plans and asset & wealth management plans.

Prior to joining Lions Financial, Ariel was responsible for Wealth Management at AXA advisory for eight years. While there, he supported clients to create and execute a plan of action for their financial goals. Ariel worked for MetLife as a financial service representative worked businesses and professional to build a large network within the financial services industry. Ariel has a strong foundation in financial advisory, with agile skills adapting to the changing business environment and making sure to maintain focus on a client’s actual needs in risk management.

With over 15 years of experience in entrepreneurship, management, business planning, financial analysis, operations, and decision analysis, Ariel has the breadth and depth of experience needed to quickly understand entrepreneurs’ businesses. He focuses on maintaining clients’ relationship to continuously review the implementation of the financial solution. He believes that technology evolves rapidly, but human relationships are important to craft the most suitable plan for clients’ situations, which is still what matters the most in this business

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Ariel Tavor

Principal

Ariel Tavor is the Founder and Principal Managing Director of Lions Financial. His agenda for Lions Financial is to provide his clients a service that maintains the highest professional value. Specializing in the Business-to-Business market has allowed proficient expertise in providing ongoing consulting services in the focus areas of business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. Ariel works with CEO’s, Capital Investment funds, and Boards of Directors where he advises his clients in matters of Executive compensation, Business Plan Design, Mergers & Acquisitions, Due Diligence, and Asset Financing.

Ariel has 10 years of experience in the financial services industry. He has worked in insurance and investment companies to analyze client’s financial and make suggestions on allocations based on defined objectives as well as maintaining long term relationships. Ariel’s comprehensive experience has allowed him to work closely with CEOs of companies and their executive teams from diverse industries such as trucking, hospitality, commercial real estate, Insurance, manufacturing, and technology. He has helped lead companies through the challenging decisions around – Buy-Sell Agreements, Deferred Compensation, Employee Group Benefits, Succession Planning, Mergers and Acquisitions, Valuations, and Business Sales.

Ariel currently oversees their family office investment group and sits on the Board of Directors of several companies and real estate developments. Their Investment group controls a portfolio of companies in multiple industries. They collaboratively have holdings in companies specialized in – Automotive Distribution- Real Estate Asset Management- Corporate Travel- Ink Mailing Manufacturing, E-Commerce, Financial Services, Management Consulting, Enterprise Technology, and Food Concepts. In recent years there has been a transition into fund allocation towards limited partnership investments in Venture Capital, Private Equity, and REITS within individual underwriting opportunities.

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Ariel Tavor is the founder and principal managing director of Lions Assurance Financial. His agenda for Lions Assurance Financial is to provide his clients a service that maintains the highest professional value. Specializing in the business-to-business market has allowed proficient expertise in providing ongoing consulting services in the focus areas of business advisory, capital markets, and risk management.

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Industry Recognition

Lions Assurance Financial is a highly successful, independent business consulting and wealth management advisory firm that focuses on three key areas of the financial industry: business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. The experienced team at Lions Assurance Financial focuses on serving the business and wealth management needs of privately owned business generating 3-50 million in revenue including independent business owners, family owned businesses, and business partners. Lions Assurance Financial works with capital providers including investment banks, private equity firms, venture capital firms, capital advisory firms, accredited investor platforms, commercial banks, and speciality finance firms.​

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What is the fundamental difference between a buoyant company and a not-so-good one, when all the factors are the same?
The reply is simple- expeditious actions. It is the outcome of the ability to form an idea about the situation, find a perfect response,
and then act accordingly. And all that, without an iota of hesitation. Companies that belong to the second group are known to lack this decisiveness, which sprouts from an absence of clarity in vision or rather the faculty of processing the steps mentioned above.​

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An effective risk management consultant will help individuals and organizations evaluate their risks and develop a plan to counter their losses. Risk management is a complex process, and there is no one-size-fits-all process that all consultants can use. However, there are certain conventional methods that a consultant will use to help you protect your organization from risk. A risk management consultant should be capable of identifying the unique risk that your business is exposed to and carefully evaluating the scenarios. One of the most critical steps in the risk management step is to discover and list all the expected and unexpected risks. There are various advisory firms that can help you mitigate risk and take care of your business’s financial aspect, but one firm that stands out from the rest is Lions Financial. The company is an independent financial services & business advisory firm based in New York. In conversation with Ariel Tavor, Managing Director of Lions Financial. Lions Assurance Financial is a highly successful, independent business consulting and wealth management advisory firm that focuses on three key areas of the financial industry: business advisory, capital markets, and risk management. The experienced team at Lions Assurance Financial focuses on serving the business and wealth management needs of privately owned business generating 3-50 million in revenue including independent business owners, family-owned businesses and business partners. Lions Assurance Financial works with capital providers including investment banks, private equity firms, venture capital firms, capital advisory firms, accredited investor platforms, commercial banks, and specialty finance firms.