Fernanda Pires da Silva


Fernanda Ferreira Pires da Silva GOM GCM ComMAI was a Portuguese businesswoman. She was President of Grupo Grão-Pará, a conglomerate focusing on construction, real estate, tourism, hotel management, and marble.

Biography

Da Silva was born in Lisbon, Portugal.
On 16 November 1972, she was made Commander of the Industrial Class; on 20 February 1989, she was made Grand Officer of the Order of Merit; and on March 11, 2000, she was raised to the Grand Cross of the same Order.
By her first husband Abel de Moura Pinheiro, she was the mother of the businessman Abel Saturnino da Silva de Moura Pinheiro, who married Maria João de Lacerda de Barros Caetano de Moura Pinheiro, and has children.
By her second husband Alberto Teotónio Pereira, she was the mother of João Paulo Teotónio Pereira, who married Ana Margarida Buzaglo Zagury Teotónio Pereira, and has children.
In recognition of her family's contribution to the building of the Autódromo do Estoril for Portuguese motor sport, the stadium was renamed in her honour. She died in Rio de Janeiro, aged 93.