Coomar, husband of the Deckers' daughter Sarah, is president of RainSong. The Coomars will be running the company in Woodinville, while the Deckers, longtime residents of Wailuku, stay put. A couple of RainSong employees had some training in guitar-making, but most, like Coomar, did not, and Decker thinks that was an advantage, considering the special materials and techniques. Coomar is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology, and earned master's degrees in computer science and business administration at the University of Southern California, where he met Sarah Decker. After working in Texas, he and Sarah wanted to move to Maui when their child was on the way.
Decker laughs about that.
He predicted Coomar would never find a job in Hawaii paying what he was making in Dallas. In five days, Coomar had his job. It was on Oahu a rescue mission for a multimillion-dollar system that wasn't performing but the employer was so anxious for his services that he paid for Coomar to commute daily. Meanwhile, Sarah was serving as sales manager at RainSong. He immediately rationalized the product line, cutting it from nearly 20 models to one.