Kai Barbehön
Vice President Central Control Units, Wire Harness, Power Supply,
BMW Group

Following his degree in electrical engineering in 1994 Kai started his career in the Automotive sector at Robert Bosch GmbH in Stuttgart Feuerbach as a system, software, and function developer for ICE Control units.

In 1998, he accepted an offer by BMW AG to lead the team developing the E/E engine management system for BMW’s first gasoline direct-injection engine.

During his 25 years at the BMW Group, he held various management positions, such as responsibility for holistic E/E development for BMW motorcycles or the responsibility for E/E platform technologies where he pushed forward the standardization of the FlexRay networking technology and the development and deployment of AUTOSAR.

At the beginning of 2013 he became vice president for E/E integration and qualification & test.

In March 2015 Kai was appointed to head the development of electric/ electronics architectures, platform software, and automotive security.

Since 2017, Kai has been responsible for setting up the central E/E infrastructure as Vice President “Central Control Devices, Physical On-Board Network, Energy Supply” including the development of

• central control devices, functions and components of the digital vehicle access
• the physical on-board network and
• energy management functions, low-voltage converters and low-voltage storage systems.