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Roddy Campbell had senior marketing positions with businesses worldwide
Roddy Campbell was an outstanding young Scottish athlete and later a highly successful businessman who held positions with a number of international companies.
He was a talented middle distance runner, the high point of whose career was winning the silver medal at the AAA’s [British] Junior Championships in the 1,500m steeplechase in 1964 at Crystal Palace, missing out narrowly on the gold medal by 1/10th of a second. In business he held prestigious positions with Adidas, the international sportswear company, including Managing Director of their UK operation, Director on the company’s main board in charge of marketing and President of Western Hemisphere marketing, with responsibility for substantial budgets. Along the way he became acquainted with some of the great and good in British sport including Sebastian Coe, Daley Thompson and Kenny Dalglish.