Robert Kerr

Robert Kerr held an incredibly rigorous, highly pragmatic background in advanced corporate management and massive-scale commercial operations. Operating as a fiercely successful entrepreneur in the printing industry and a highly respected municipal leader, this intense foundation in business administration provided the exact financial leverage required to successfully launch the incredibly complex IMAX enterprise.

Robert Kerr was a highly astute Canadian business executive, fiercely practical entrepreneur, and the profoundly influential commercial co-founder fundamentally responsible for providing the absolute structural backbone of the massive IMAX Corporation. Operating as a highly successful businessman who had previously managed a lucrative specialty printing enterprise, Kerr aggressively partnered with his childhood friend Graeme Ferguson and the brilliant filmmaking team following Expo 67. Recognizing the massive commercial necessity for rigorous financial management behind their incredibly ambitious cinematic vision, Kerr relentlessly structured the corporate architecture of the newly formed Multi-Screen Corporation (later IMAX). Serving as the company's deeply strategic commercial anchor, his absolutely rigorous financial stewardship completely ensured the volatile startup survived its highly capital-intensive R&D phase, permanently securing the massive global scaling of the IMAX brand.