Background
PEREIRA, Armando do Arruda was born on September 28, 1889 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
PEREIRA, Armando do Arruda was born on September 28, 1889 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Educated in Sao Paulo and Genoa, Italy, 1896-1899, Ginásio Nogueira de Gama, Jacarei, Sao Paulo, 190004, Seafield Park Engring College, Fareham, England, 1905-1906, Birmingham University, England, 1906-1908. Civil Engineer, New York University, United States of America, 1910.
Engineer, inspector, Compania Construtora de Santos, 1921-1924. Industrial director, Compania Cerámica Sao Caetano, 1923-1942, vice-president, since 1942. Director, Federagáo de Industrias de Sao Paulo.
Municipal councilman, Sao Bernardo, 1936-1937.
Member tech, economics and finance board, ministry of finance, 1943. Member: Institute de Engenharia, Associagáo Comercial, Rotary (president, Rotary International, 1940-1941), American Ceramic Society, Royal Society of Arts (London), American Society of Civil Engineers, Institute Histórico e Geográfico de Sao Paulo.