
Patrick Pélata
Expertise and experience
Born in 1955, Patrick Pélata joined Renault in 1984 as a shop foreman at the Flins plant. As of 1988, he contributed to the creation of the Renault Twingo and served in several engineering positions before becoming Director and joining Renault's Management Committee in 1998. Following the signature of the Alliance between Renault and Nissan in 1999, he joined Nissan in Tokyo as Executive Vice-President in charge of Corporate and Product Planning, Design and Programs, sitting on the Executive Committee of Nissan and the Executive Board of the Alliance. In 2005, he returned to Renault as Executive Vice-President in charge of Corporate and Product Planning, Design and Programs, and joined the Executive Committee. Patrick Pélata served as Chief Operating Officer of the Renault Group from October 2008 to April 2011, before his departure in August 2012.
From September 2012 to July 2015, he was Chief Automotive Officer and Executive Vice-President of Salesforce.com, where he was tasked with strategy execution and promoting social media, mobility and cloud computing technologies to the automotive industry.
In July 2015, he created Meta Consulting LLC, of which he is the President. In 2017, he returns to Paris.
Since December 2018, Patrick Pélata has been a member of the National Academy of Technologies of France (Académie des technologies) – a learned society dedicated to improving the public's understanding of the best use of technology – and its Chairman since January 2024.
Patrick Pélata is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and of the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées engineering school, and holds a PhD in socioeconomics from the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Current offices
- Safran(1): Director responsible for monitoring climate issues, member and Chair of the Innovation, Technology and Climate Committee, member of the Audit and Risk Committee, and member of the Appointments and Compensation Committee
- Non-Group:
- Meta Strategy Consulting (President)
- Orano (Director)
- Vulog (Director)
(1) Listed company
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