Fisher, Omar C.

Division Manager, Corporate Business Development and Group Sales, Bank Aljazira; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Omar C. Fisher is currently a Division Manager for Bank Aljazira. Between 1997-2000, Fisher founded and launched First Takaful USA. Previously, Fisher founded Sana Financial, an Islamic finance company, for North American Islamic Trust in 1996. He established the first commercially run Islamic leasing company in the U.S., BMI Leasing, Inc., in 1992. From 1983 to 1992, Fisher was an Investment Guaranty Officer at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), where he assisted financings and risk guaranties for 120 projects in 29 countries. Fisher earned a B.A. from Yale University, a M.Ed. from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and a M.S.M. degree from A.D. Little School of Management. In April 2000, Fisher was honored as the Takaful Entrepreneur of the Year by the New York College of Insurance and Takaful Forum. Fisher is an internationally recognized speaker on Islamic finance and takaful and has written a comprehensive training and sales manual for First Takaful USA and several articles on Islamic leasing.