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Anthony Godley spends less time these days on the daily operations of the company he founded and more on the question of where it goes next. As chairman of Logix BPO, the outsourcing firm he started in 2021 and led until stepping back from the chief executive role in 2025, he has turned his attention to acquisitions, new markets and what he calls “the long game.”
He sketched the agenda in his own words, saying he wants to “showcase the company that I’ve built with Logix, obviously, and also the future projects that I’m building… and the acquisitions that I’m involved in.”
A founder turned strategist
This reorganization followed the promotion of Chris Mackintosh, the company’s former chief operating officer, to chief executive. This allowed Godley to move into a chairman’s seat focused on strategic direction, not operations. By his own description, that means concentrating on new-market expansion, corporate development and the long-term growth of his wider interests.
According to Godley, he made this move to keep the company growing past the point where it depends on him, and using the free time to think several moves ahead. The chairman’s role gives him room to do that thinking without the constant pull of operations, and it puts a seasoned chief executive in charge of the parts of the business that need a daily hand, not a strategic one.
Growth on the map
Logix offers a clear record of expansion to reason from. The company began from a small Australian-registered operation before establishing its center of gravity in Cebu, in the Philippines, where it now runs from a facility with room for more than a thousand staff. It reports further operations across Africa and India, and its client base spans markets including the United Kingdom, Australia and, according to the company, contracts in Iceland. That spread is the momentum Godley is building on as he weighs where the company should go next. Each of those markets was opened by choice rather than chance, and he treats the pattern as a guide to where the next opportunities are likely to sit.
On acquisitions specifically, he keeps the discussion at the level of strategy. While he has not named targets or pointed to deals that have not closed for commercial reasons, he is willing to discuss competing with far larger multinationals by moving faster and choosing its expansion carefully, instead of trying to match them on scale alone.
Playing a longer game
The company’s current phase emphasizes durability and steady growth.Godley has noted that the objective is to build a set of interests designed to compound over the next several years.
Stepping back from the chief executive role was itself a long-game move for Godley, a bet that the company would be stronger in five years for not being tethered to its founder’s daily involvement. The acquisitions and new markets he is now weighing are extensions of the same logic, judged less by what they add this quarter than by what they are worth once they have settled in.
By delegating operational control, Godley aims to point Logix toward growth he means to shape himself.. This structured approach to leadership and expansion now sits behind the wider set of interests he is gathering under his own name at AnthonyGodley.com.
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