Stonepeak's Mike Dorrell Mints $9 Billion Infrastructure Fortune
Dorrell, a managing director for Australian bank Macquarie Group Ltd., and colleague Trent Vichie went to Blackstone Inc. and successfully pitched the alternative-investment giant on building out an in-house business buying assets like pipelines, cell phone towers and toll roads.
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