Open Circle Solutions Team

Anton is a digital marketing specialist with a wealth of experience in both local and international marketing. With a proven track record in leading successful digital marketing teams, he has developed a well-rounded background in the digital space, including extensive experience in planning and executing digital campaigns and strategies.

Throughout his career, he has successfully managed campaigns across a wide range of digital channels, from SEO to mobile marketing. As Managing Director, he provides thought leadership, strategic guidance, and account direction to all of our clients, ensuring that every campaign is designed to deliver maximum impact and results.

As a tactical innovator, he is always seeking new ways to help our clients achieve their business goals through digital marketing. He brings a combination of strategic thinking, technical expertise, and strong interpersonal and communication skills to every project, working closely with our team to ensure that we deliver the highest level of service and value to our clients.

Ruan is a highly skilled and experienced marketing professional with a passion for all things digital. His role is to lead and manage our team’s marketing strategies and campaigns, working closely with clients to understand their business objectives and develop customized solutions that meet their unique needs.

He has a deep understanding of the digital marketing landscape, including SEO, Google Ads, Google Analytics, content marketing, email marketing, and other digital channels. He is constantly staying up-to-date with the latest trends and best practices to ensure that our agency’s marketing strategies are always cutting-edge and effective.

In addition to his technical skills, he’s an excellent communicator and team leader. He works closely with the agency’s team of marketing specialists, providing guidance, support, and motivation to ensure that everyone is working towards a common goal. 

His goal at Open Circle Solutions is to help our clients succeed in a highly competitive online world. He is dedicated to providing the highest level of service and expertise, always striving to exceed expectations and deliver exceptional results.

Nicky is an experienced Digital Account Manager with over seven years of experience in client relationship and account management.

She has successfully led strategic digital marketing initiatives across various brands in different industries, combining SEO, paid media, and client-focused strategies to drive performance and ROI.

With a strong background in client service, team mentorship, and campaign optimisation, Nicky thrives in fast-paced environments where strategic planning and performance-driven execution are key. She is passionate about building long-term client relationships and delivering impactful marketing solutions.

Celeste is a paid media specialist, with over a decade of experience in digital marketing across a wide range of industries. She is in charge of paid marketing, creating and managing the strategy, execution, and optimisation across channels. Helping our clients acquire valuable new leads and customers through online pay-per-click and cost-per-acquisition campaigns.

When she isn’t immersed in structuring and building a marketing campaign, you will find her happily designing away in Photoshop creating artwork fit for social media platforms or websites, in a customised style that works with and enhances the brands image. Allowing digital campaigns to work with the visuals taking it  beyond just another strategy.

Shijulal Sarngadharan is an exceptionally skilled and seasoned digital marketing strategist, with extensive expertise in both local and international markets. Currently, he holds a position as a Senior Technical Digital Marketer at OCS.

With an impressive track record spanning over 18+ years, he has excelled in creating, executing, and optimising digital strategies for customer acquisition, retention, and demand generation across various business sectors, including B2B, B2C, and D2C-based E-commerce companies, as well as service-oriented businesses. His approach encompasses a blend of Organic and Paid Media Strategies.

Throughout his career, Shijulal has successfully managed numerous paid media marketing campaigns on a global scale and also achieved remarkable success in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for various companies. Notably, he also works as a proficient media planner and conversion rate optimiser, specialising in paid media marketing. His decision-making process is heavily rooted in data-driven analysis, making him a results-focused strategic thinker.

To keep the creative juices flowing in her spare time she gets her hands dirty and picks up a paint brush to give life to canvas.

Johnny oversees all business development for Open Circle Solutions, through strategic digital business solutions that help clients meet conversion goals. As a marketing consultant, he helps put together digital campaigns, running social media strategies and helping clients grow their businesses organically.

In addition to social media, Johnny specialises in reputation management, with plenty of experience in assisting SMEs and an in-depth understanding of the unique challenges that South African businesses face. He is also skilled in SEO, PPC, email marketing, and web design, which allows him to offer a fully rounded service to clients.

As the content specialist for Open Circle Solutions, Rox produces content for client blogs and various other projects. She has been writing since 2006, blogging across a diverse range of industries from B2B to B2C and highly specialised niche industries. With experience in SEO content as well as email content, Rox understands the need for clients to find their voice online.

Content plays an important role in online growth, helping your business get found in search engines. It also helps you connect with your audience on a deeper level. By producing quality content that is interesting, well-researched, and relevant to your industry, Rox allows you to reap the benefits of digital content.