Spotlight: Kinko’s Orfalea Pledges $2.5 Million to USC

Paul Orfalea, who grew a single copy shop into the giant Kinko’s Inc. chain, has pledged $2.5 million to the University of Southern California to endow the Kinko’s Chair in Entrepreneurship. A graduate of USC’s Marshall School of Business, Orfalea was named 1997 Entrepreneur of the Year by USC’s Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Thomas O’Malia, director of the center, will be the first holder of the endowed chair. Privately held Ventura-based Kinko’s has 900 sites.