Bruce Saville

Bruce Saville (December 5, 1944 – October 13, 2025) was a Canadian businessman and philanthropist who lived in Edmonton, Alberta. He was a shareholder of the Edmonton Oilers before the Edmonton Investors Group was sold.

Career Early career Saville started working in the Sales and Service division of Goodyear in Ontario. He was required to create 10-page summary reports using a manual calculator and data from a 4-foot thick computer printout generated monthly. Saville sought to computerize this process. He brought the idea of computerization to Goodyear's IT department; they replied they were too busy.

At Saville's next hockey game, he approached a hockey team member who was a systems analyst. At the following hockey game, his teammate came with five volumes of Cobol programming manuals.

He was also Chairman of the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation. He was an avid ice hockey fan and player all his life. As a player, he was a goaltender.