Mohammad Ali Khan the CEO of the first ever Muslim owned investment bank in US history was requested personally by Republican Senate majority leader (Trent Lott) to grace the Presidential Roundtable Council as its member. He was requested to fill in one of the positions of 21 eminent representatives from the state of New York. The relevant letter in this regard is displayed here.
Chester Trent Lott, Sr. (born October 9, 1941), is a former United States Senator from Mississippi, who served in numerous leadership positions in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. He entered Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic.