PÉLATA Patrick
Patrick PÉLATA, after 5 years of research, joined the Renault group in 1984 in manufacturing and, later, in engineering. He left for Japan in 1999 as Nissan Board member and global EVP in charge of Design, Products, and Programs. He returned to Renault in 2005 and became Deputy CEO in 2008.
Since 2002, he has been involved in the study of the decarbonization of road mobility, first in Nissan, then in Renault where he drove Renault’s electric vehicle program announced in 2009.
In 2012, he became Chief Automobile Officer of Salesforce in San Francisco. From 2018, he has been operating Meta Strategy Consulting from Paris.
He is also a director of Safran (aeronautics), Orano (nuclear), Vulog (car-sharing platform).
He is a graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École des Ponts-ParisTech and holds a PhD in socio economics from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
He is married with four daughters.
