Dominique Mielle
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Dominique Mielle reads as The Navigator because she orients by positioning within complex capital structures rather than surface-level business enthusiasm. The Canyon Capital partner reads terrain, anticipates counterparty moves, and charts a course through contradictory signals with unusual composure.
“I was at the time. I like to think that I'm more, you know, after 30 years in this country, I'm a little bit better Acclimatized to how the That people live in this beautiful country, but I still do feel somewhat foreign in this country. And frankly, when I go back to France, I feel equally foreign because I'm not really French either.”
“Exactly, and that is, of course, due to the Fed intervention. But if you think about it QE is a relatively novel tool, it wasn't invented in 08, but certainly before that it hadn't been used so massively, so widely, so systematically.”
“Different and similar at the same time. If you're talking about female representation in hedge funds, it's very similar. There's been nanosteps, but it's nowhere near. What you would expect for an industry that's grown so much and that's become so institutionalized. And that's something we may want to talk about later.”
“I think when I got stuck or I saw other women stuck, it's not so much that they were hitting their head against some invisible ceiling, it's that they were sort of pulled down. They just had to, and I had to fight so much for what seemed to be much easier to get to for men.”
Masters in Business: “Dominique Mielle on Luck and Resilience in Finance”
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