First U.S. Envoy to Organization of the Islamic Conference Named

President Bush has appointed high-tech executive Sada Cumber as America’s first special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC).

“The core of his mission is to explain to the Islamic world that America is a friend -- a friend of freedom, a friend of peace,” Bush said after a February 27 Oval Office meeting with Cumber.

Born in Karachi, Pakistan, in 1951, Cumber immigrated to the United States in 1978 and has been a U.S. citizen since 1986.  A successful and well-known entrepreneur based in Austin, Texas, Cumber has founded six companies in the past 25 years, and most recently served as chief executive officer of SozoTek, a firm that specializes in wireless imaging. more