He is currently also the head coach of the First XI and director at Guildford Grammar School in Perth, Western Australia.
Ackerman has four Test appearances for South Africa all made in 1998.
He joined Leicestershire in 2005 under the Kolpak ruling which allowed him to play for an English county without being registered as an overseas player.
Ackerman's father, Hylton Michael Ackerman, played first-class cricket for Border, Natal, Northern Transvaal and Western Province in South Africa, and for Northamptonshire in England.
He was picked for the World XI that played Australia in 1971–72, but did not play Test cricket because of South Africa's exclusion from international cricket on account of apartheid.