Randy Coplen
Randy Coplen is an entrepreneur that has had a wealth of business experience and has been involved in founding 13 business organizations in his career. The businesses Coplen founded or help found were in the following areas:
- Graphic Arts (Offset Printing)
- Winter Sports (Snowboard manufacturing and distribution)
- Water Sports (Wake board and water ski manufacturing)
- Aviation Industry (Rotorcraft flight school and sales dealership)
- Finance (Founding member and vice chairman of a National Bank)
- Apparel (President of an outdoor clothing company)
- Mergers and Acquisitions (Consulting for the sales of small businesses)
- Management Training (CEO Leadership Training, Vistage)
Community support included:
- First president of Tukwila Chamber of Commerce, now South Seattle C. C.
- Member of Southcenter Rotary and past president
- Member of Highline College Foundation
- Member and Chairman of City of Tukwila Planning Commission
Coplen founded Printing Control in 1973 under his guidance it grew it into a large regional printing facility with over 100 employees. He also help found Mervin Manufacturing, a snowboard development manufacturing company and help founded a wake board and water ski company.
Randy was a founding director and vice chairman of a National Bank, President of an international clothing company; and managing member of a rotorcraft aviation dealership, and flight training center. He is also a member of Vistage, an association that provides CEO training and mentoring, and has worked with companies manufacturing in the far east and also was part of a mergers and acquisitions brokerage.
Coplen was a founding member and the first president of the Tukwila Chamber of Commerce, which has since evolved into the South Seattle Chamber of Commerce.
Coplen attended Highline College from 1964-66 earning an associate degree and continued on to obtain his bachelor’s degree in visual communications from Western Washington University. He has served on the Highline College Foundation and been an industry advisor to past printing programs