ACELL International LLC is a private company committed to sound governance with a board charter, well defined roles and responsibilities for directors and management who are actively involved in guiding the company’s strategy to determine potential new goods, services, markets, and business models, as well as what it takes to capture value-creation opportunities with big upsides over the long term. 

ACELL International believes it is important to increase corporate value by fulfilling accountability through dialogue with various stakeholders and customers, making efforts to execute transparent business activities, and swiftly conducting business activities with fairness and honesty based business practices.

Accountability and transparency delivered by ACELL International directors is a foundation of their fiduciary duties with the core elements of loyalty and prudence in place. Loyalty in its directors being the placement the company’s interests ahead of their own and prudence being the application of proper care, skill, and diligence to its business decisions. Nothing will allow us to maximize short-term value to the exclusion of contributing to the progress and development of society and the well-being of people worldwide through its business activities that will help the company thrive for years into the future.

ACELL International’s directors take an active role in scenario planning and helping management to navigate increasingly costly risks as well as keeping a keen focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues and, in particular, those related to climate change, sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategies.  The directors also have an active role in risk management, particularly cybersecurity risks to ensure that the company is adequately anticipating and responding to cybersecurity threats.

ACELL International Board 

The Board meets on a regular basis monthly or more frequently if required.
Both equity and cash form the basis of their remuneration. Selection of directors will be determined by the Board to ensure that they have complementary and diverse skill sets, backgrounds and experiences, are financially literate with the skills and experience to analyse and assess complex financial issues and understand the risks involved in the company’s operations. The size of the Board allows for a variety of perspectives, with sufficient members to manage required Board processes and includes an adequate independent representation.

Audit and Risk, Compliance and Compensation standing committees are in place to oversight company operations, the relationship between strategy and risk, and the Board’s role in relation to particular categories of risk. These principles include understanding key drivers of success and risks in the company’s strategy, crafting the right relationship between the Board and its standing committees as to risk oversight, establishing and providing appropriate resources to support risk management systems, monitoring potential risks in the company’s culture and incentive systems and developing an effective risk dialogue with management.

Our company culture regards open dialogue, including dissent as an obligation and believes that no subject pertinent to the effective running of the company is undiscussable.  A robust cycle of respect, trust and candour exists to engender sharing of difficult information openly ensuring that with reasonably complete information made available to Directors, they confidently can challenge one another’s assumptions and beliefs coherently with spirited give-and-take if required to reach the best conclusions available for the company at the time. 

A Code of Business Conduct is in place for directors and employees to affirm ACELL International’s commitment to the highest standards of business conduct and ethics, integrity and attendant compliance reporting in accordance with all applicable laws.