Even as a teenager, Fabio Figueiredo had a keen sense for business. It was a high school marketing project that first piqued his interest in the stone industry, and later led him to pursue his goal to develop his own stone fabrication business. Today, La Pietra in Brookfield, CT, is a successful family company that caters to the upscale residential market.
“I was in high school and belonged to the marketing team,” said Figueiredo. “I did a whole project about bringing in slabs and wholesaling them. I have some family that is in the granite quarrying business down in Brazil.”