About the Firm

Built by a veteran.Led by judgment.

Acacia Lake Consulting was founded on a conviction: the most consequential decisions deserve advisors who take them as seriously as the client does. The firm is led by a veteran principal and an analytically rigorous operations leader whose careers span force protection, scientific research, and military service.

Founding Principal

The firm, in his own words.

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CISSO · CDFE

Cesar Cuevas

Co-Founder & Managing Principal
Chief Warrant Officer, Texas State GuardTexas State Trooper · South Texas RegionField Director, Texas DPSOA

Cesar Cuevas is a multidomain security leader and federal active-duty veteran with a distinguished record across military, law enforcement, and operational security. As Chief Warrant Officer with the Texas State Guard, he serves as Force Protection Operations OIC for Operation Lone Star, the multi-agency border security initiative in the Brownsville Sector.

DesignationsCISSO, CDFE — Mile2
Master Peace Officer — TCOLE
EducationB.S. Criminal Justice / Police Science
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Practice FocusForce Protection · InfoSec · OpSec
Energy Emergency Management
Physical Security · Insider Threat
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PhD · LP

Elizabeth Cuevas

Co-Founder & Director of Operations
Major, Texas State GuardAccomplished Executive & Operations LeaderPublic & Private Sector Experience

Elizabeth Cuevas is an executive and operations leader whose career runs through science, operations, and military service. A Major in the Texas State Guard, she holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Texas A&M University and graduate training in Epidemiology from UTHealth Houston. She is at her best on problems that need careful analysis and practical execution in equal measure.

DesignationsPhD, LP
EducationPh.D., Texas A&M · M.S., UTHealth Houston
B.S. Microbiology, Texas Tech University
Practice FocusOperations · Market Research
Legal Practice Operations
Grant Writing · Data Analysis
A Note from the Founders

We started Acacia Lake because we watched too many good ideas die quiet deaths.

Not because they were wrong. Because no one would say what needed to be said. We’ve seen strategies stall in endless analysis, and watched people swallow the truth rather than cross the person above them. We know that cost firsthand: we’ve seen doing the right thing, even saving lives, put a target on the backs of the people who did it. We understand what it asks of someone to act anyway.

That’s the gap we exist to close.

The uncomfortable truth delivered in time is worth more than the comfortable one delivered too late.

So here’s our promise: we’ll give you our honest read, grounded in real experience, even when it isn’t easy to say. We’ll help you move when moving is right, and tell you plainly when it isn’t.

That’s the standard we hold ourselves to. Every engagement. Every time.

The Founders, Acacia Lake Consulting

The standards that define the firm.

The firm exists because the work we do (security, operations, legal practice, emergency response) requires both the discipline of the field and the rigor of the lab. Neither alone is enough.

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Field-Tested Judgment

We trust field experience over frameworks. Before advice goes into a recommendation, it gets one test: would it have held up in the incidents we have actually worked?

02

Analytical Discipline

Every engagement is anchored in evidence. We measure what matters, document our methodology, and say what the data says, even when the answer isn't what was hoped for.

03

Bilingual & Bicultural

Headquartered in Brownsville, Texas, and active across the U.S.–Mexico border region, we work in English and Spanish and know the regulatory and cultural terrain on both sides of the border.

04

Discretion by Default

Most of our engagements are conducted under NDA. Client names stay off the website and out of the pitch deck. The clients who hire us value advisors who can be trusted with information that matters, and we earn that trust by keeping it.

05

AI Assists. Principals Decide.

We use AI-assisted analysis to move faster through complex information, but the final call stays human. A model can surface a pattern; only a person decides what to do about it.

Institutional Background
UTRGV
University · BS
Texas DPS
State Trooper
Texas State Guard
Chief Warrant Officer
Texas DPSOA
Field Director

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