For over 35 years, Iain Banner has co-founded and directed various successful businesses and charitable ventures throughout the world, across the sports, entertainment, luxury goods and hospitality industries.

As co-founder and chairman of E-Movement, Iain and his partners successfully staged Formula E Cape Town in February 2023.

 Prior to that, they also staged ‘Africa’s Green Economy Summit’, connecting capital with the Green Economy; launched Formula Student Africa and staged the ELECTRIC Festival.  GO GREEN AFRICA was launched by Iain at this time too.

Iain’s previous projects include co-founding Sports International, the Gary Player Design Company, and the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.

Iain also co-founded the Laureus World Sport Awards and the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation, which has raised over €250 million supporting some 300 projects annually, using sport as a tool for social change in the lives of children. Independent assessments have shown that some 7 million children have been positively impacted by the work of the Sport for Good Foundation since it was founded in 2000.