About
When you need specialist business or technical advice and help, it always pays to seek the best expertise - and no-one knows more about the cards, payments, transaction processing and banking industry across Europe and beyond than Savantor.
Since 1997 our team of senior people from financial services, software, processing and related industries has completed major projects for many well known banks, card schemes, third party processors and hardware/software vendors. The value of that combined experience is incalculable to our current and future clients.
Savantor provides a wide range of strategic advice and operational implementation, based on detailed knowledge of the latest thinking within the industry. The results we deliver are both rapid and practical because, as you would expect, we’ve encountered similar circumstances before so we know what’s coming next.
Our Team
Craig Oldroyd
Managing Director
Managing Director, has 30 years’ experience in the card and payments industry. Before moving into consultancy with Savantor in 2015, he held senior roles at Citigroup, Alliance & Leicester, Telefonica and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Services. Enabled by significant experience in acquiring, issuing, digital and mobile payments and 3rd party processing, his recent experiences with Savantor have been helping clients who are undertaking large scale transformation programmes centred around new platform implementations and portfolio migrations. He became Managing Director of Savantor in February 2021.
Geoff Durham
Non Executive Director
Non-Executive Director, has spent over 35 years working in strategic consultancy, system conversions and development in the card payment, transaction processing and banking industry as well as with third party processors and software houses.
Karen Oldroyd
Director & Company Secretary
Karen has designed and led transformational programmes to deliver cultural change and improved leadership capability across a number of different organisations and industries. She has experience across a wide range of 'people' disciplines having worked in organisational development, recruitment, assessment and training design & delivery. Karen delivers measurable improvements in cultural change, organisational capability and talent management, supporting overall business achievements and delivering a demonstrable return on investment. After many years of building her own consultancy business, Karen joined Savantor in February 2021 as a Director and Company Secretary.
Melinda Durham
Resourcing Director
Resourcing Director, has spent over 15 years in the recruitment and specialist resourcing business, servicing major organisations in the UK and Europe. She has extensive experience in contract, permanent and consultancy resourcing both directly and in managed agency operations.
Kevin Murphy
Principal Consultant
Over 30 years’ experience in the payments industry in both Acquiring and Issuing. Prior to joining Savantor, he held leadership roles including project/programme management, business development, operations management and credit and risk management in a range of sectors including Banking, Payment processing and Startups. He also has prior experience as an independent Payments Consultant working with a number of European, Latin American and US processors.He is a dynamic and successful practitioner with significant expertise in managing change, operations, projects, people and finances. He holds formal qualifications in project management, operations management and management and in 2018 he received the TSYS processing’s prestigious President’s Circle Award.
Alan Sambridge
Principal Consultant
A payments specialist focussing on Operations, Disputes and Fraud and Risk Management. An early advocate of FinTech’s and the innovation they bring, alongside the things we take for granted – Chip, Contactless and Wallets. With experience across Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, a ‘hands-on’ person enabling product development and facilitating change within established businesses. Previous senior roles at GE Money Europe, Citigroup, Diners Club International, CIBC and UK Building Societies before becoming a Consultant.
