FHi, the first woman to be appointed official broker on the Portuguese Stock Exchange, in 1980, at a time when the profession was still classified as a “manly function”. He says he met all the requirements, “except this one, that of virility”, but he was accepted and showed that he made things happen as well as any man. At the age of 65, in the middle of the subprime crisis (high-risk mortgage credit), Maria Cândida Rocha e Silva founded a bank, Carregosa, which today, at the age of 80, she continues to preside over. In a life interview with Expresso’s leadership and careers podcast, “O CEO É o Limite”, Maria Cândida (as she likes to be addressed), talks about the path she got here and her vision of the future. And he leaves several lessons: that of nonconformity, that of consistency, that of determination.
