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Celagenix® Group · Governance infrastructure

Move governance from the background of compliance to the foreground of strategy.

Advisory · Evaluation · Training · Tools - everything connected.
EST. 2014 · SANDTON · GABORONE · 17 COUNTRIES celagenix.com
- Foreword
“Anticipating the future is an art. Creating it in today’s world is a science. Knowing how to do both is the X-factor. It’s in our name: Celagenix.”

For over a decade we have helped 150+ organisations across 17 countries turn governance from an obligation into an advantage. In 2026 - the year King V takes effect and AI reaches the boardroom agenda - that work has never mattered more. This profile shows you how we do it, and how the pieces connect.

Martin Louw
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Martin Louw
- What we are

The governance infrastructure your organisation runs on.

Celagenix®, established in 2014, is the governance group that organisations build on. We combine strategic advisory, a board evaluation platform, a professional development academy, and practical governance tools into one connected system - so that governance stops being a function to manage and becomes a capability that drives performance.

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Celagenix® Advisory

Governance, sustainability and AI governance consulting. The parent practice.

celagenix.com

BoardEvaluator™

The intelligent board evaluation platform. 18 modules, King V-aligned.

boardevaluator.com

Celagenix Academy

Governance training, credentials and the Director’s Toolkit.

www.celagenix.academy

Celagenix Agency

Strategy sprints (StratDash®) and professional media production.

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- Why we exist

To inspire trust for a more resilient corporate world.

Our purpose
Be Kind - do the right thing. Be Honest - keep your word. Be Smart - make things better.

Vision

Maximum societal and environmental impact through corporate resilience. Strong leaders create healthy organisations. Healthy organisations create sound communities. Sound communities raise strong leaders. This is the cycle of true sustainability.

Mission

We cultivate boards and businesses of distinction - guiding leadership teams through strategies that promote exemplary governance and foster enduring sustainability, for the benefit of humanity.

- The moment

King V is here. AI is in the boardroom. The bar has moved.

On 1 January 2026, King V came into effect - bringing outcomes-based disclosure, a standardised Disclosure Framework, and for the first time, explicit board accountability for AI governance. Boards can no longer point to policies; they must produce evidence.

At the same time, AI is reshaping how organisations operate, decide and compete. The boards that thrive will be those that govern with the same intelligence they are being asked to oversee. Celagenix exists for exactly this moment: we are AI-enabled in how we work, so when we advise on AI governance, we speak from experience.

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2026
Celagenix founded
King V effective · AI on the agenda
Principle 9 · King V
“Principle 9 is the keystone of King V. Boards that cannot evidence a structured evaluation cycle are functionally non-compliant on most of the other twelve.”
- How it connects

One system. Four connected capabilities.

Most governance advisory ends with a report that disappears into a filing system. Ours doesn’t - because our recommendations connect directly to an evaluation platform, a training programme, and practical tools that make implementation possible.

We don’t just tell organisations what good governance looks like. We give them the infrastructure to build it.

No other firm in our market offers all four in one connected system.
AdviseADVISORY EvaluatePLATFORM DevelopACADEMY BuildAGENCY
Advise - senior practitioners on your hardest governance challenges
Evaluate - BoardEvaluator™ turns evaluation into evidence
Develop - the Academy builds the skills the evaluation reveals you need
Build - the Agency turns strategy into assets, campaigns and content
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Celagenix® Advisory

Senior practitioners on your hardest governance challenges.

Strategic Governance & Board Advisory

Harness technology and data-driven insight to elevate your organisation’s governance capabilities. From navigating the regulatory intricacies of King V to developing strategies for peak board performance, our adaptive governance programmes are tailored for tomorrow’s leaders - and every engagement is led by a senior principal with direct practice experience.

Governance Capability Building
Corporate Resilience
Leadership Development
Strategy Facilitation
Reimagine organisational success with a modern approach to corporate governance.

AI Governance & Data Privacy

Unlock the potential of AI while ensuring ethical implementation and responsible use - from robust AI policies to transparent oversight systems, aligned to King V Principle 10 and international frameworks (NIST AI RMF, OECD, ISO/IEC 42001).

And because trust runs on data: our POPIA and data-privacy practice transforms regulatory complexity into streamlined frameworks that enable business rather than blocking it.

Shape responsible innovation through human-centred AI governance.
In practice - try it free
AI Governance Oversight Checklist
A scored, King V-grounded self-assessment for boards.
celagenix.com/ai-governance-assessment
POPIA Compliance Status Assessment
Know where your privacy programme stands in minutes.
celagenix.com/popia-assessment

Sustainability & ESG - the ESGOR™ framework

Elevate your vision and adopt new insights to support your organisation’s sustainability efforts, built on our proprietary ESGOR™ framework - designed to systemise and accelerate the integration of sustainability into business strategy and operations.

Unlock the true value of sustainability with ESGOR™.
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Environmental - impact, resources, climate posture
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Social - people, communities, stakeholders
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Governance - oversight, ethics, accountability
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Organisational health - culture, capability, alignment
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Resilience - the capacity to endure and adapt
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boardevaluator

A Celagenix® brand - the intelligent board evaluation platform, King V-aligned, trusted for high-stakes board oversight.

Your board’s effectiveness directly impacts organisational performance. BoardEvaluator™ is our proprietary, AWS-secured evaluation platform: confidential quantitative scoring, senior-advisor qualitative interviews, automatic response tracking, and disclosure-ready, King V-mapped outputs - evidence, not just feedback, without the manual complexity.

10x your board evaluation effectiveness.
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150+
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Countries
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Secure hosting
POPIA / GDPR
Privacy-aligned by design
BoardEvaluator™ · Module map

18 evaluation modules, five tracks.

Board track · 8
Board-as-a-Whole
Board Committee
Individual Director
Peer-to-Peer
Chairperson
Director Independence
Board Skills Matrix
Board Remuneration
Executive · 2
CEO / MD
Company Secretary
Compliance · 5
Declaration of Interest
Fit & Proper
Governance Status
Risk Oversight
AI Governance Status
Specialist · 1
Sustainability & ESG (ESGOR™)
Pension funds · 2
Principal Officer
Fund Administrator
Every module maps to the 13 King V principles - see the full mapping at boardevaluator.com/king-v.
18 modules · 5 tracks
BoardEvaluator™ · The readiness journey

From a single cycle to a group-wide programme.

BoardEvaluator™ scales from a single board cycle to multi-entity group programmes, always scoped to the board’s structure and context. For boards preparing for their first King V cycle, our 90-day King V Readiness Sprint moves a board from scored self-assessment to a completed, disclosure-ready evaluation.

Full packages and scoping live at boardevaluator.com/packages.

One 30-minute conversation is all it takes to scope a cycle.
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Scoped self-assessment
Baseline scoring across the board’s chosen modules.
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Senior-advisor interviews
Qualitative depth behind the quantitative scores.
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Disclosure-ready reporting
King V-mapped outputs the board can evidence.
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Development loop
Findings feed the Academy and the next advisory cycle.
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Celagenix AcademyBRAND ACCENT · ACADEMY GOLD

Training, credentials & the Director’s Toolkit.

Celagenix Academy is the group’s training and learning arm - governance programmes spanning King V, the Companies Act and the Pension Funds Act, delivered online at www.celagenix.academy.

The Academy encodes our advisory methodology into structured learning for both enterprise boards and SME leadership teams: what our consultants practise, your directors can now learn.

Develop exceptional governance talent for a rapidly changing world.
KING V
Outcomes-based governance, principle by principle
CO. ACT
Directors’ duties under the Companies Act
PFA
Trustee governance under the Pension Funds Act
TOOLKIT
The Director’s Toolkit - below
Celagenix Academy · The Director’s Toolkit

Governance tools directors use between meetings.

A suite of interactive, browser-based governance tools - scored, practical, and King V-grounded - published in jurisdiction editions (South Africa; Namibia; more to follow). Distributed and bundled through the Academy.

Try the thinking before you buy the engagement.
AI Governance Oversight Checklist
Director Induction Checklist
Reserved-Matters Matrix
Model Board Calendar
Personal 90-Day Action Plan
EDITIONS: SOUTH AFRICA · NAMIBIA · MORE TO FOLLOW
FREE FOR EVERYONE
Two tools are free to everyone as scored assessments on celagenix.com - the POPIA Compliance Status Assessment and the AI Governance Oversight Checklist.
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Celagenix AgencyBRAND ACCENT · AGENCY PURPLE

The build engine of the Celagenix Group.

Strategy at speed: StratDash® & SIEF

StratDash®, the Agency’s structured strategy-sprint methodology, brings objectivity and clear thinking to complex challenges - converting strategic deadlock into decisive action in days, not months.

Behind it sits SIEF, the Sovereign Idea Execution Framework, live as two free interactive tools: ClarityForge (a seven-dimension capacity and readiness diagnostic) and IdeaForge (a six-phase idea-clarity engine).

Gain strategic clarity when the stakes are highest.
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SPRINT METHODOLOGY
StratDash®
Deadlock → decisive action, in days.
FREE TOOL · SIEF
ClarityForge
Seven-dimension capacity & readiness diagnostic.
FREE TOOL · SIEF
IdeaForge
Six-phase idea-clarity engine.
Celagenix Agency · Studio & production

From strategy to screen - in-house.

From its studio in Pretoria, the Agency produces the group’s - and its clients’ - media: recording, video and podcast production, photography, and post-production.

It is the production engine behind the Academy’s training content, using an automated production methodology that has cut content production costs by over 90%. For clients, that same capability delivers brand, campaign and content assets that match the strategy they were built to serve.

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Recording studio
Control room
Podcast studio
Video production
- Where we work

Deep sector knowledge, continental reach.

Sectors
Banking & Financial Services
Retirement Funds
State-Owned Enterprises
Statutory Bodies & Regulators
Mining
Agriculture
Retail & Manufacturing
Health & Pharmaceutical
Celagenix footprint — dot-grid map of Africa with HQ Sandton and Gaborone office marked
HQ SANDTON GABORONE OFFICE 150+ CLIENTS · 17 COUNTRIES · SATELLITE / REMOTE GLOBALLY
Sustainability is ingrained in our core values. Our Code of Ethics & Professional Conduct governs how we work.
celagenix.com/code-of-ethics
- Leadership

Senior practitioners. Not account managers.

Martin Louw
Martin Louw
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Johann Koen
Johann Koen
Director · Corporate Governance
Calistas Chijoro
Calistas Chijoro
Director · Operations
Simeon Swanepoel
Simeon Swanepoel
Compliance & Regulatory Consultant
De Villiers du Plessis
De Villiers du Plessis
Head of Media & Product Development
- Clients

Trusted by 150+ leading organisations in 17 countries.

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Questions, comments, or a challenge you’d like a second opinion on? We enjoy meaningful conversations about the future - specifically yours.

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+27 12 755 5528
WHATSAPP
+27 73 047 5262
EMAIL
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