Family Business Governance Software
Board and family council management for multi-entity family businesses
Family businesses often operate across multiple entities, generations, and governance bodies. As structures grow, governance becomes harder to manage with email, shared drives, and informal processes.
Govrn is a board and governance management platform designed to support family businesses with clear structure, secure collaboration, and documented decision-making — without adding unnecessary complexity.
Governance challenges in family businesses
Family businesses face governance challenges that differ from traditional corporations
Multiple boards across holding and operating companies
Manage governance across complex group structures with ease
Family councils alongside formal boards
Coordinate multiple governance bodies in one platform
Overlapping roles and sensitive information
Control access with strict permissions and audit trails
Without a structured governance system, this often leads to:
- • Limited visibility and traceability
- • Knowledge loss between generations
- • Inconsistent documentation
- • Increased legal and operational risk
One platform for all family governance bodies
Govrn centralises family business governance in a single, secure environment
You can manage:
- • Boards of directors (holding and subsidiaries)
- • Family councils
- • Advisory boards
- • Investment, audit, or remuneration committees
Each governance body operates independently, with its own members and roles, agendas and meeting schedules, documents and board packs, and access and permission settings.
This allows family businesses to scale governance without fragmentation.
Multi-Entity Governance
Manage boards, family councils, and committees independently with their own members, agendas, and permissions
Secure Access Control
Role-based permissions, document-level security, and full audit trails for confidential family governance
Structured Decision Making
AI-generated minutes, action tracking, and searchable governance history for long-term continuity
Secure access for family members and external directors
Family businesses often combine family stakeholders with independent board members and advisors
Govrn provides:
- • Role-based access per board or committee
- • Document-level permissions
- • Full audit trails and version history
- • Secure collaboration without shared drives or email attachments
This ensures confidentiality while maintaining transparency where required.
Structured meetings and documented decisions
Govrn helps family businesses professionalise board operations while remaining practical and lightweight
Key capabilities include:
- • Centralised agendas and board packs
- • Decision and action tracking
- • Secure storage of historical governance records
- • AI-generated meeting minutes to reduce administrative effort
All governance activity is documented, searchable, and accessible to authorised users.
Supporting continuity across generations
As family businesses transition between generations, continuity becomes critical
Generational Continuity
Preserve governance history and reduce reliance on informal knowledge
Professional Operations
Centralized agendas, board packs, and documented decisions without complexity
Built for Family Business
Support for complex structures, multiple boards, and long-term governance resilience
Govrn supports this by:
- • Preserving governance history and decisions over time
- • Creating clarity around roles and responsibilities
- • Reducing reliance on informal knowledge holders
- • Providing a consistent governance framework across entities
This makes governance more resilient — regardless of leadership changes.
Built for multi-entity family business structures
Unlike generic collaboration tools, Govrn is built specifically for governance
Family businesses choose Govrn because it supports:
- • Complex group structures
- • Multiple boards within one organisation
- • Long-term governance continuity
- • Secure, compliant board operations
Govrn adapts to existing governance structures rather than forcing a predefined model.
Who uses Govrn in family businesses?
Govrn is used by:
- • Family shareholders
- • Chairs and board members
- • Family council members
- • CEOs and executive teams
- • External directors and advisors
- • Corporate and board secretaries
Each user sees only what is relevant to their role.
Family business governance, made practical
Govrn helps family businesses manage governance with clarity, structure, and security — without turning governance into a consulting project.
One platform. All governance bodies. Long-term continuity.
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