Founder Profile
Robert Kerr
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Robert Kerr?
Robert Kerr is a founder of IMAX Corporation, which was founded in 1967 with Graeme Ferguson, William Shaw and Roman Kroitor.
- Company founded
- IMAX Corporation
- Founded
- 1967
- Co-founders
- Graeme Ferguson, William Shaw and Roman Kroitor
Background
Businessman and former mayor of Galt, Ontario, who brought management and financing experience to the founding team.
Founding Story
Robert Kerr was the business partner among IMAX's founders. A former mayor of Galt, Ontario and a friend of Graeme Ferguson, he handled the company's early financing and commercial operations as the founders turned their Expo 67 experience into a single-projector large-format system.
Robert Kerr was born in 1929.
Robert John Kerr was born on August 28, 1929 and died on April 29, 2010. The owner of a printing business, he was mayor of Galt, Ontario, from 1964 to 1967 and the second mayor of Cambridge, Ontario, in 1975 and 1976.