Elmer Coppoolse

Elmer Coppoolse is an international hotelier and Chief Operating Officer of The Greenbrier and Managing Partner of The Resort at Glade Springs, both located in West Virginia.

With over 30 years of experience as an independent hotelier, Coppoolse has owned and managed hotels across the United States, Middle East and Europe. He also managed The Jefferson Hotel in Washington, D.C., one of the founding members of Small Luxury Hotels of the World. From 1999 to 2003, he served as COO and development partner of SynXis, an internet startup that pioneered the first ASP in hotel reservations management. SynXis became the leading software for booking engines and channel management in the hospitality industry and was acquired by Sabre Hospitality in 2004.

Originally from the Netherlands, Coppoolse later became a U.S. citizen. He holds an undergraduate degree from Ecole Hôtelière de Lausanne in Switzerland, a graduate degree in Marketing from the Netherlands Institute of Marketing and studied Hotel Finance at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Coppoolse is the Board President of the World Cancer Research Fund and President of the Owners Club at The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia. He has also served on the boards of Mountain State University and the University of Charleston in West Virginia.

He and his wife, Mary Jo, live between Bethesda, Maryland; Hot Springs, Virginia; and Glade Springs, West Virginia. They have four grown children, including their youngest daughter, Caroline, who graduated from WVU in 2017.