Patricia Salas Pineda

Patricia Salas Pineda is vice president of human resources and legal and corporate secretary for New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI).

NUMMI is the pioneering joint venture of General Motors Corporation and Toyota Motor Corporation that helped change the automobile industry by introducing new production line techniques and teamwork-based work strategies. NUMMI’s collaborative relationship with the United Auto Workers is a national model studied in business schools around the country.

Ms. Pineda has been with Fremont California-based NUMMI -www.nummi.com- since it opened in 1984. Since then, NUMMI has produced more than five million General Motors and Toyota automobiles and employs 5,500 team members. It produces about 360,000 vehicles annually. NUMMI builds the Toyota Corolla, Pontiac Vibe and Toyota Tacoma for the North American market and exports the Toyota Voltz to Japan.

Ms. Pineda is a member of many boards of directors including the Hispanic Scholarship Fund, Mills College, the James Irvine Foundation, the RAND Corporation, and the California Manufacturers' Association.

Ms. Pineda is a former member and president of the Board of Port Commissioners for the Port of Oakland.

In 2003, Salas Pineda was named Latino Executive of the Year at the 7th Annual Urban Wheel Awards during the 2003 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. She was voted one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine in 2003. In 1999, she won the Woman in Leadership Award from the San Francisco Business Times.

Pineda received her B.A. degree from Mills College in 1974 and her J.D. in 1977 from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.