[9] His first job after business school was working in the training program at Procter & Gamble at their headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio.

During his tenure at DDB Worldwide, Kopelman worked with clients including JB Liquors, Heinz Ketchup, and Chanel, which was one of his largest accounts.

At the outset of Kopelman's career with Chanel, the brand had two standalone boutiques and its annual revenue was reported at $357 million.

By the time of his retirement, there were 17 brick-and-mortar boutiques just in the United States and in 2014, Chanel reported annual sales in the area of $7 billion.

As such, he put together its five-year multi-platform endorsement deal with Nicole Kidman as the face of the perfume, for which the director Baz Luhrmann created television advertisements.

[16][17][18] Coco, whose father was a businessman of Greek descent and whose mother was French, is from a Sephardic Jewish family.

In January 1989, Kopelman was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.