Karl Kaiser is Director R&D Drives within the Line of Business Industrial Control & Drives of Schneider Electric. In this role he is responsible for the development of all drives in Schneider Electric, managing directly reporting R&D teams in France, Austria, Japan and China.

Karl holds several patents related to drives and power electronic structures. He received his degree of graduate engineer of Electronics and Control Theory from University of Technology of Vienna, where he was working several years afterwards as an assistant professor. During this time he was author of several publications and he did his thesis analyzing different power electronic architectures for drives regarding efficiency.