LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 29, 2026--
Xsolla, a global commerce company, today announced that Carla Bedrosian, Esq., Chief Administrative & Legal Officer at Xsolla has been named a nominee for the 2026 LA Times Studios Inspirational Women Forum & Leadership Awards. The sixth annual program recognizes women whose leadership has a remarkable impact on their industries and communities. The program will celebrate honorees at an awards dinner on November 5, 2026, in Santa Monica, California.
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Bedrosian’s nomination recognizes the comprehensive legal infrastructure she has built since joining Xsolla in early 2024. Xsolla acts as a merchant of record in more than 200 geographies, supporting over 1,000 local payment methods so video game developers and publishers can sell directly to players anywhere. Under Bedrosian’s leadership, the legal department has scaled across multiple regions and jurisdictions, embedding compliance and legal operations into the business to support consistent, efficient launches in new markets.
“Every time a developer reaches players in a new country through Xsolla, Carla’s team has already done the work to make that possible,” said Chris Hewish, President of Xsolla. “She has built a legal function that moves at the speed of our business, across more than 200 markets, and that foundation is what our partners rely on to grow with confidence. This recognition from LA Times Studios is well earned.”
The nomination marks Bedrosian’s fourth industry recognition in the past 12 months. Earlier this year, she was recognized as one of the leading In-House CLOs by LA Times Studios; Law.com named her a finalist in the “Innovative Leaders” category of its Leadership, Influence & Inclusivity in Law Awards; and OnConferences named Bedrosian, alongside Natalia Voziyan, Xsolla’s Vice President of Legal and Operations, as finalists for its Top 50 Corporate Counsel Award.
“These recognitions belong to our entire global legal team, who keep Xsolla open for business in hundreds of markets and help developers grow and thrive there with confidence,” said Carla Bedrosian, Esq., Chief Administrative & Legal Officer at Xsolla. “Our job is to clear the path so developers can sell directly to their players anywhere in the world. I’m grateful to be recognized alongside so many influential women who are opening doors in their own industries.”
For more information on the Los Angeles Times Inspirational Women Forum & Leadership Awards, visit latimes.com/b2b/business-visionaries/inspirational-women.
To learn more about Carla Bedrosian’s nomination, you can visit: https://xsolla.pro/LA-Times-Bedrosian
About Xsolla
Xsolla is a global commerce company that builds and provides all the things developers need to launch, grow, and monetize video games. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, the company supports studios of every size, from indie to AAA, with solutions across direct-to-consumer commerce, intelligent payments, entertainment-based IP, and player engagement products. Xsolla helps developers fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games at scale. Trusted by more than 70% of the top 100 highest-grossing games, Xsolla operates as the merchant of record across 200+ geographies with access to 1,000+ local payment methods worldwide. Grounded in a deep belief in the future of video games, Xsolla is resolute in bringing opportunities together and unlocking growth for creators everywhere.
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Chris Hewish, President of Xsolla
Carla Bedrosian, Esq., Chief Administrative & Legal Officer at Xsolla
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has ordered an investigation into the Democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate in the state after revelations that her campaign appeared to be involved in recruiting another candidate with the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan.
Dunleavy's order, posted overnight on social media, comes a day after President Donald Trump called for the criminal prosecution of Mary Peltola and her campaign.
In a race that's among a handful of Senate contests this year expected to determine control of the chamber, the Republican president had previously directed his Department of Justice to sue to block certification of it, demanding that Alaska be prevented from certifying a win by Peltola if Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. remains on the state's ballots.
Dunleavy wrote that reporting by The New York Times “reveals disturbing new evidence of an organized effort to manipulate Alaska’s elections by recruiting candidates — including one with the same name as an incumbent U.S. Senator — to deliberately confuse voters and misdirect their votes.”
“Deliberately tricking voters into casting their ballots for someone else strikes at the integrity of our elections,” Dunleavy added, noting that the reporting “substantially supports” earlier findings by the state’s elections board into the matter.
Trump on Thursday cast doubt on whether Peltola would be seated in the Senate even if she won the election. “Well, you’re going to have to see what happens," the president told reporters on his way to a rally in South Carolina. "It’s hard to believe that she could even be allowed to run.”
Peltola’s campaign didn’t immediately respond to a message Thursday seeking comment on Dunleavy’s order. But during a campaign stop in Soldotna, Peltola, a former congresswoman, suggested the Times’ report was a “distraction” from issues such as Sen. Sullivan’s support of the war in Iran.
“This is just another distraction. It’s another diversion,” she said in a video posted online. “This is all stuff to sell newspapers. This is all stuff to get subscriptions.”
And the situation in Alaska isn't that unusual. Political parties often support extra candidates on ballots to try to pull votes from their rivals. If state courts allow it, legal experts say, the federal government has no role challenging the results.
In Ohio’s Senate race, Republicans have been tied to an effort to boost a socialist on the ballot who would pull votes from the Democratic candidate challenging Sen. Jon Husted.
On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance didn’t go as far as Trump did in calling for Peltola to be prosecuted but said he supported a probe into possible election fraud.
“I mean, she is a person who, for months now, has pretended that she has had nothing to do with the fact that they have put a fraudulent person, a person explicitly designed to confuse Alaska voters, on the ballot,” Vance told reporters ahead of a campaign trip to Texas. “She is trying to steal a Senate seat from the voters of Alaska, and it’s disgraceful.”
Earlier this year, a top state elections official ruled Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a retired schoolteacher in the small fishing community of Petersburg, ineligible for the primary ballot, concluding that his declaration of candidacy was filed “with a purpose to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot’s fairness or neutrality.”
The case went to the Alaska Supreme Court, which ruled he was qualified to run. He has long denied he was running at Democrats’ behest and has said he had no contact with Peltola’s campaign: “Zero, none, zilch,” he said in June after announcing his run.
Alaskan voters will see “Dan S. Sullivan” identified as a “registered Republican” and “incumbent” on their ballots, while “Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.” will not have a party affiliation.
The New York Times reported that interviews, text messages and documents prepared for a potential lawsuit showed Peltola’s team aimed to coax candidates into the race, with the aim of splitting support for the GOP senator.
Asked about the reporting on Wednesday, Trump told journalists, “I think they should be prosecuted.” He earlier had posted on social media that “Peltola should suffer the Legal and Political consequences for what she has done.”
Meg Kinnard can be reached at http://x.com/MegKinnardAP. AP writer Seung Min Kim contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One, Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Vice President JD Vance speaks to the media before boarding Air Force Two for Texas, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026. (Evan Vucci/Pool Photo via AP)
FILE - This combination photo shows Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, left, in Palmer, Alaska, Aug. 17, 2026, and a candidate in Alaska's Senate race, Dan Sullivan, right, in Petersburg, Alaska, July 3, 2026. (AP Photos/Mark Thiessen/Becky Bohrer, File)
FILE - Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks in the Oval Office of the White House during an event with President Donald Trump, Sept. 30, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - Mary Peltola, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate seat in Alaska, addresses supporters at an election watch party on Aug. 18, 2026, in Anchorage, Alaska. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
