DavidSugarman

Ask David Sugarman about his schedule and he’ll tell you his life is one big day — Monday to Monday, no weekends, because when you love what you do, the line between working and living disappears. He’s up before sunrise riding over the Biscayne bridges as the sun comes off the ocean, splits his time between Miami and New York to be close to his daughter, and still works a phone the way he did as a nineteen-year-old making five hundred cold calls a day from a Manhattan bullpen.

The résumé runs deep — vice president at some of the world’s most respected banks, certified NBPA and FIBA agent, founder, investor. But titles were never the point. What’s carried him from trading floors to locker rooms to boardrooms is simpler: the nerve to walk up to anyone, the discipline to outwork the room, and the conviction that one conversation can change everything. His entire career started with a business card handed to a stranger. It usually does.