Omar is the founder and CEO of Maden, America’s first B2B digital marketplace for U.S. manufacturing. Maden is digitizing America’s entire manufacturing product inventory into a single data set, making our $7T annual manufacturing output discoverable and instantly purchasable, at scale. Integrating instant finance and capital access at checkout, Maden enables small manufacturers to hurdle capital bottlenecks and mitigate up to 20% annual factoring. Maden supports wartime readiness, supply chain sovereignty, and helps realign U.S.–China competitiveness.

In 2025, President Trump and DHS Secretary Noem appointed Omar to the Homeland Security Advisory Council.

An attorney and former U.S. Department of Defense official, Omar spent 18 months in Afghanistan during the surge, advising senior military and diplomatic leaders. Omar then became a counter-terrorism prosecutor, working on motions and appeals in the 9/11 trial and USS Cole bombing trial.

Omar has led investigations overseas targeting captured terrorist network leaders. He led an interagency group to assess foreign prosecutions of terrorists detained by the United States. Omar has represented the United States and engaged at the principal-level in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Israel.

Omar was the GOP nominee for U.S. Congress in California’s 52nd district in 2018.

Omar has served over a decade in the U.S. Army Reserve with both reserve and active duty time, currently holding the rank of Major.

Omar holds a B.A. in Philosophy from UCLA, M.A. in International Relations from the Maxwell School of Public Affairs at Syracuse, M.S. in Public Relations from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse, and J.D. from Syracuse Law School.

Omar's attorney admissions include New York, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and The Supreme Court of the United States.