Craig R. Savage - Partner

As a partner with STS Capital Partners, Craig has been involved in a number of buy-side and sell-side mandates in both the U.S. and Canada; leveraging his experience with McKinsey & Company, he has advised clients on structuring and accelerating growth through mergers & acquisitions and corporate finance in industries such as Information Technology and Consulting, Marketing Services, and Healthcare.

Craig was most recently the founder and Managing Director of Videre, Inc. (an Ontario registered company). Videre provides a full spectrum of consulting services to both public and private healthcare and healthcare-related organizations (e.g., healthcare IT providers), including regional health authorities, hospitals and physician groups, community care centers, long-term care and mental health facilities, government health organizations, and professional health associations. Videre focuses on improving short and long-term performance by helping clients turn around a decline in performance, re-orient their product/market strategies, improve operational efficiency and lower overhead, and increase productivity.

For a period of 5+ years, Craig was with McKinsey & Company principally in the Healthcare, Commercial Insurance, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management (PSM) and Information Technology (IT) practices; he has extensive functional experience in strategy development, operational effectiveness, strategic sourcing and procurement, and information technology. Craig was also an integral part of McKinsey’s Business Building (headquartered in Toronto, Canada) practice where he assisted leading institutions with top-line growth through innovation, new business creation, and IT transformation.

Prior to McKinsey & Company, Craig was a serial entrepreneur launching 3 companies over the course of 5 years including a leading automotive website, cars.com, an Internet-based healthcare company, and an interactive design and development firm that successfully went public in 1996. He started his career with Electronic Data Systems (EDS) in Dallas, TX serving 7 years in EDS’ Healthcare (Payor and Provider), Commercial Insurance, Manufacturing and Consumer Package Goods practices as a strategy consultant, director of marketing, and software engineer; a significant portion of Craig’s time with EDS was also spent in Corporate Marketing as a business development manager for Latin America.

Craig earned a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, a MS in Marketing from the Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) and postgraduate work (M.B.A.) at Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management (Phoenix, AZ).