Struan Campbell is a Partner at Octagon Africa – a global leader in creative sports & entertainment marketing.
A restless champion of ideas that move fans as much as business growth, he previously co-founded Levergy and spent over a decade transforming it into South Africa’s most acclaimed sponsorship agency, earning three consecutive AdFocus Specialist Agency of the Year titles (2022–24) and garnering more than 125 honours across awards such as the Loeries, Clios, WARC Awards (Associate Cannes Lions), Marketing Achievement Awards, Prisms, Assegais, Creative Circle, and Bookmarks.
From MTN’s Last Fan Standing to Nedbank’s Play Your Part and New Balance’s Feel the Fire, Struan has developed campaigns for numerous ambitious brands – Absa, BMW, DStv, Heineken, New Balance, SuperSport, Audi, and Telkom among them often setting the creative standard within their categories.
He serves on the Creative Circle EXCO, judges the Effie and Loerie awards, and chairs panels for the Marketing Achievement Awards continually advocating for bold, inclusive work across the industry.