Patrick PÉLATA

Graduate of the École polytechnique and École nationale des ponts et chaussées. He has a PhD in socioeconomics from the Parisian École des hautes études en sciences sociales. He began his career with Renault in 1984 as shop foreman at the Flins factory, then as a robotic processes engineer. He took part in the Twingo project and managed the vehicle engineering department in 1998. In 1999, he joined Nissan’s executive committee in Tokyo as executive vice president in charge of Corporate and Product Planning, Design and Programmes. In July 2005, he returned to Renault and occupied a similar position, and in October 2008, became Chief Operating Officer of the Renault Group. He joined Salesforce in San Francisco in 2012, and created Meta Consulting, based in California, in 2015.