Gordon S. Marshall is an American electronics entrepreneur.

The University of Southern California School of Business

Marshall School of Business

The USC Marshall School of Business is a private research and academic institution at the University of Southern California. It is the largest of USC's 17 professional schools. The current Dean is James G. Ellis. In 1997 the school was renamed following a US$35 million donation from alumnus Gordon S...

 is named after him, following a pledge of $35 million made in 1997. Gordon S. Marshall is a USC business alumnus (class of 1946)

Marshall has been a member of the university's board of trustees for nearly three decades. At the time, his company, Marshall Industries, based in El Monte, California

El Monte, California

El Monte is a residential, industrial, and commercial city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. The city's slogan is "Welcome to Friendly El Monte," and historically is known as "The End of the Santa Fe Trail." As of the 2010 census, the city had a total population of 113,475,...

, was one of the nation's five largest distributors of industrial electronic components and production supplies. Marshall Industries was bought by Avnet

Avnet

Avnet, Inc. is a technology Business-to-business B2B distributor headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona. Electronics Supply & Manufacturing magazine reports that Avnet Inc., a Fortune 500 company, may be the world's largest franchised distributor of electronic components and subsystems...

in 1999.