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About Celagenix®

Built from practice. Driven by purpose.

We are the governance group organisations build on, combining strategic advisory, a board evaluation platform, a professional development academy and practical governance tools into one connected system.

150+
Organisations
17
Countries
3000+
Evaluations
2014
Established
Who we are

The governance infrastructure your organisation runs on.

We are not a generalist management consultancy. We do not do everything. We have made deliberate choices about where to focus.

Celagenix® was established in 2014 with a clear conviction: that governance, done properly, is not a compliance function, it is the foundation on which high-performing organisations are built. Over more than a decade we have built the advisory capability, the platform, the training system and the tools to prove it.

Our ambition is to help create sustainable societies by empowering decision-makers. As global citizens and environmental advocates, we recognise that sustainability goes beyond carbon, it runs through everything we do.

What makes Celagenix® different is not what we do, it is how everything we do connects. Advisory informs evaluation. Evaluation informs training. Training informs the tools directors use every day. The tools surface the gaps that bring clients back to advisory. No other firm in our market has built all four capabilities together, from practice, over more than a decade.

Our purpose

Governance as strategy.

Strong leaders create healthy organisations. Healthy organisations create sound communities. Sound communities raise strong leaders. This is the cycle of true sustainability.

Celagenix® Group, founding purpose

Be kind · Be honest · Be smart · Make things better.

Positioning

Governance as strategy

We move governance from the background of compliance to the foreground of organisational performance.

Origin

Built from practice

Everything we offer was built from real engagements, not from theory or templates borrowed from other markets.

Design

Connected by design

Every product and service connects to every other. Advisory, evaluation, training and tools reinforce each other.

Practice

AI-enabled

We are AI-enabled in how we work. When we advise on AI governance, we speak from operational experience.

The flywheel

Everything connects. Every engagement feeds the next.

Most governance advisory ends with a report that disappears into a filing system. Ours does not. Recommendations from a BoardEvaluator™ cycle connect directly to Academy training, toolkit tools and, where it demands it, consulting. The cycle repeats annually.

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Entry

Clients enter through any touchpoint, a consulting engagement, a BoardEvaluator™ discovery, an Academy download or a toolkit tool. No single required starting point.

Any brand
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Qualify

Tools and training surface governance gaps. The Academy toolkit gateway prompts users toward formal evaluation at natural thresholds; consulting engagements recommend cycles directly.

Academy
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Evaluate

BoardEvaluator™ runs the formal cycle, quantitative platform, qualitative interviews and King V-mapped per-principle outputs in a disclosure-grade report with specific recommendations.

BoardEvaluator™
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Recommend

Report recommendations reference specific Academy modules, toolkit tools and, where complexity demands it, premium consulting. The cycle repeats. Each year builds on the last.

All brands
Where we operate

Built for specific jurisdictions. Applicable across borders.

Celagenix® operates globally with deep expertise in specific jurisdictions. Our products are always built for the legislative reality of the market they serve. Priority markets are South Africa, Botswana and Namibia.

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South AfricaInternational HQ, Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton. Companies Act, King V 2025.
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BotswanaRegional office, Gaborone. Companies Act Botswana, CIPA.
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NamibiaPriority market. PEGA 2019, NamCode, King V as best practice.
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Sub-Saharan AfricaActive across the continent, jurisdiction-specific adaptation.
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Middle EastUAE and Saudi Arabia, satellite capacity.
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17 countriesTotal operational footprint, growing.
Who you will work with

Senior practitioners. Not account managers.

Every engagement is led by a senior principal with direct practice experience in the domain you need. You work with the people who built the methodology.

Martin Louw
Martin Louw
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Governance strategist, entrepreneur and architect of the Celagenix® ecosystem. Martin leads the group's strategic direction and senior advisory across corporate governance, AI governance and organisational strategy. Over a decade of practice across 17 countries.
Johann Koen
Johann Koen
Director, Corporate Governance
Specialist in corporate governance frameworks, board effectiveness and evaluation methodology. Johann leads governance advisory and BoardEvaluator™ cycles across southern Africa and internationally, with deep expertise in King V application.
Calistas Chijoro
Calistas Chijoro
Director, Operations
Leads operational delivery and client engagement across the ecosystem. Calistas oversees governance capability building, Academy delivery and the operational infrastructure that keeps all four business lines running at pace.
Simeon Swanepoel
Simeon Swanepoel
Compliance & Regulatory Consultant
Specialist in regulatory compliance, data privacy and POPIA implementation. Simeon advises organisations on navigating complex regulatory environments, translating obligations into practical systems that build trust rather than overhead.
De Villiers du Plessis
De Villiers du Plessis
Head of Media & Product Development
Leads the Agency's studio and media capability, the production engine behind the Academy's training content and the group's brand output, with a methodology that has reduced content production costs by over 90%.
Corporate profile

Explore the Celagenix® Corporate Profile 2026.

The full story of the group, its four business lines and how they connect, in one document.