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We diagnose before we prescribe.
We identify the organisation’s maturity, founder dependency and structural priorities before recommending a path forward.
Is your business ready for its next stage?
Founder-built. Institution-ready.
At Roman Governance Partners, we help you see where the company depends on you, strengthen how it's led, and build an organisation that transcends generations.
Market Reality
Mexico's Structural Problem
Why founder-led businesses struggle to endure
Problem
50%+
At risk of not surviving
Half of founder-led and family businesses face significant continuity risk due to accumulated structural weaknesses.
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Institutionalisation Gap · The root cause
3–5%
Have reached institutional maturity
The organisational capabilities required for long-term continuity were never fully developed.
- 66% require intensive governance & professionalisation work
- Only 3% have a formal CEO succession plan
- Institutional maturity has declined for three consecutive years
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Business Outcomes
5–6%
Reach the third generation
Structural weaknesses gradually erode continuity, resilience and enterprise value.
- Loss of enterprise value
- Loss of business continuity
- Loss of generational wealth
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Economic Impact
52 out of every 100 businesses born in Mexico disappear before their second anniversary.
| Year | Opened | Closed |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | ||
| 2021 | ||
| 2023 |
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Without intervention, the cycle repeats.
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Mexico's broader business ecosystem reflects the same structural challenge. · CIFEM–BBVA / IPADE
Sources: CIFEM–BBVA (2022, 2023, 2025) · BBVA / IPADE / CIFEM · INEGI · Statista / INEGI, SMEs in Mexico 2020–2023.
The Founder Reality
Does any of this sound familiar?
Most businesses grow faster than their structure. Decisions slow down. Risk accumulates. The founder becomes the bottleneck — without anyone naming it.
Management
Everything runs through you.
Your leadership team executes. But rarely decides.
Founder Dependency
Growth
Growth without structure.
Revenue grows. Complexity grows faster.
Institutionalisation Gap
Continuity
No clear succession plan.
The business keeps moving. The organisation doesn't.
Continuity Risk
Evidence
56%
Founders combine strategic and operational roles.
CIFEM–BBVA 2025
76%
Businesses grow faster than they institutionalise.
CIFEM–BBVA 2023
Only 3%
Have a formal CEO succession plan.
CIFEM–BBVA
Different symptoms.
Same underlying issue.
Same underlying issue.
The first step is not a solution. It's clarity.
Before knowing what to build, you need to understand where the company actually stands.
Before knowing what to build, you need to understand where the company actually stands.
Institutional Governance Diagnostic™
Services
First step: understand exactly where you stand.
From there, RGP accompanies you through every stage of the journey — from the first diagnostic to institutional maturity.
Entry Point
Diagnose
2–3 weeks
The starting point for every RGP engagement. Understand where your organisation stands, where it depends on its founder, and what needs to change first.
- —Institutional readiness across 5 dimensions
- —Founder dependency assessment
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Stage 1
Prepare
6–9 months
Build the management infrastructure, decision architecture and accountability systems a company needs before a board can be effective.
- —Decision architecture & authority design
- —Management systems & KPI structure
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Stage 2
Launch
3–6 months
Design, populate and activate a Strategic Advisory Board — from member profile definition to first session facilitation.
- —Advisory board design & composition
- —Session protocol & governance calendar
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Stage 3
Develop
12-month min. retainer
Ongoing accompaniment to sustain board effectiveness — session design, agenda governance, board evaluation and continuous improvement.
- —Board session design & facilitation
- —Board evaluation & re-diagnostic
Every transformation begins with understanding where you are today.
Assess the institutional maturity of your organisation.
Request an IGD™
Why RGP
Governance is about continuity — not compliance.
We help organisations close the gap between the business they have built and the institution they now need.
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We build capability, not theatre.
Governance only creates value when leadership, information, decision rights and accountability are ready to support it.
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We stay focused on continuity.
The goal is an organisation that can grow, attract capital, transfer leadership and endure beyond any one person.
About Us
Redefining Governance.
One step at a time.
Founder First
Nobody knows your business better than you.
You've spent years building it, making difficult decisions and learning lessons no framework could ever replace.
That knowledge is one of your organisation's greatest assets. But growth changes the game. The systems, decisions and leadership that built today's business are rarely the same ones required for the next stage.
Now it's time to ensure your vision stops living only in you and starts living in the organisation.
Why We Exist
Clarity precedes transformation.
Roman Governance Partners was built around a simple conviction: every successful transformation begins with understanding reality before deciding what needs to change.
Across executive leadership, financial strategy, commercial scaling and organisational development, the pattern has remained consistent: stronger outcomes begin with clarity, structure and disciplined execution.
We don't begin with solutions. We begin with understanding.
You remain at the helm.
Our role is not to replace your judgement, your leadership or your vision. It's to help build an organisation capable of carrying them forward.
See further.
Decide earlier.
Delegate better.
Build to endure.
Institutionalisation doesn't replace the founder's vision. It enables the organisation to carry it forward.
Founder
Luis Felipe Román Villegas
Founder · Roman Governance Partners
Luis Felipe's approach has been shaped through executive leadership, financial strategy, commercial scaling and the design of management systems across growing organisations. His work spans financial modelling, organisational redesign, performance systems and multi-market expansion, complemented by executive education at London Business School.
Executive MBA — London Business School
Master's in Finance — Honours- Master's in Strategic Commercialisation — Academic Performance
Redefining Governance.
One step at a time.
Contact
Let's start the conversation.
Tell us about your business. We'll help you understand where your organisation stands—and where it can go next.