I heard a rumor that you go to sleep at 11:30 p.m. and wake up at 3:30 a.m. every day.

I do. I get up at 3:30 every day. I work out for about an hour and 20 minutes, I walk to work and I usually get here about 5:20 or 5:25 every day.

How long have you been on that schedule?

Forever. I mean, forever. It fluctuates a little bit based on my job. I’ve been here for about 15 months, so you get into a certain routine. Before here, I was the CEO of the Florida Panthers for 11 years. I would leave my house at 3:30 in the morning and arrive to my team training facility, catch up on emails for about 20 minutes, hit the gym. Team trainer would come in and train me and I’d be at my office by about 6:15. So it’s just my daily routine. Health, wellness, and fitness are really important to me. Getting to the office in the right frame of mind is critical for success. So, as I’ve told people in my career, the morning workout is the most important meeting of the day. And it’s the only meeting you never cancel.

Interesting.

That’s how I live my life, man.

It shows a level of drive and commitment to be able to maintain that sort of early morning workout routine.

It’s not easy. Because we work late here. You know, the Roc Nation DNA is really going 100 percent every day. It’s all about hard work and passion and helping to drive a business forward. So to be able to see people here early in the morning and here until 11, 12 o’clock at night [is great]. People will be here on the weekends. It’s an incredible commitment to doing the things we need to do for our clients and our partners. As I said, being in the right frame of mind and, quite frankly, being physically fit to be able to provide that type of passion and energy every day, it’s really critical.

You mentioned your time in the NHL. Could you talk a little bit about your career history and how you got to where you are now?

For a better part of the last 18 to 20 years, I’ve run professional sports teams. Most recently the Florida Panthers, the National Hockey League team in South Florida, as well as the BB&T Center, the arena we played in. I joined the Panthers in 2003 and I left the Panthers in 2014, so it was a terrific ride and I really enjoyed it. When I had completed the sale of the Panthers to the fourth owner in 11 years, I decided that I’d had enough and I needed to make a change. But I wanted something different, I wanted something that would enable me to work on a global platform. Not to mention the fact that my brother had had a long relationship with Jay and the principals of Roc Nation. Because of that relationship I was able to meet them, to get to know them. When the company decided to get involved in sports, they needed to continue to build out the infrastructure and they approached me and asked me if it was something I’d be interested in pursuing.

How big of a role did your brother play in that relationship? When I was researching your history, it stood out to me that your twin brother is currently working for the Barclays Center.

He played a significant role. There’s no secret about it. You know, Jay was a partner of the Nets for many, many years. My brother and Jay worked very closely on development of the Barclays Center, obviously along with [Nets minority owner] Bruce Ratner. So, through his relationship, I was able to develop a relationship with Roc Nation as well. It has been without a doubt the best move I’ve ever made in my career. The principles here at Roc Nation, the culture that they’ve created, their commitment to truly being the best at whatever they do, their incredible passion and energy has been second to none. I’ve never seen anything like it in my career and it’s contagious.