Disclaimer: I am located in Europe, working in the discussed industry and have spent the major time of my professional career at an automotive OEM (although not

Disclaimer: I am located in Europe, working in the discussed industry and have spent the major time of my professional career at an automotive OEM (although not BMW). I'm can totally acknowledge that most executives there have an engineering background (by degree) and started in an engineering position. But for lots of them this point of their career is far behind them (>> 5 years), the field that they have actually worked on might not match their current position or that technology isn't even relevant any more. Executives that have worked as engineers in some mechanical field in the 90s and are now responsible for some cloud software or automated driving technology development (without any kind of SW knowledge) are not uncommon. It might make sense for the companies - but I also would not label these as the "development team" with the deep technical know-how.