BDO USA Teams Up With Olympian and Pro Golfer Albane Valenzuela

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 24, 2025--

BDO USA, one of the nation’s leading accounting and advisory firms, has signed three-time Olympian and professional golfer, Albane Valenzuela, as a brand ambassador. Valenzuela will sport the BDO logo on her polo during each of her tournaments on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour this year.

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“Golf is a sport of precision, discipline and excellence, which are qualities we bring to BDO clients every day to help them thrive,” said BDO USA CEO Wayne Berson. “A three-time Olympian, standout college athlete, and rising star on the LPGA Tour, Albane is a highly accomplished golfer whose values – both on and off the course - align with ours at BDO. We are inspired not only by her worldclass dedication, but also by her commitment to raise funds for autism research through the Alexis for Autism foundation she started with her brother.”

In addition to wearing BDO’s logo during tournament play, Valenzuela will join the company during various personal and promotional appearances throughout the year. BDO will also support the Alexis for Autism foundation, whose focus and purpose are to organize golf events to raise funds for associations, foundations and medical research for autism. To date, the charity has raised over $300,000 for autism-related research.

“On its surface, golf looks like an individual sport, but no one thrives alone,” Valenzuela said. “Success in sport and in business requires the collective efforts of a full team, and I felt a strong connection with the team at BDO. Their people-first culture and purpose to help people thrive, every day, is the type of culture I’m excited to be part of and represent.”

ABOUT BDO USA

Our purpose is helping people thrive, every day. Together, we are focused on delivering exceptional and sustainable outcomes and value for our people, our clients and our communities. BDO is proud to be an ESOP company, reflecting a culture that puts people first. BDO professionals provide assurance, tax and advisory services for a diverse range of clients across the U.S. and in over 160 countries through our global organization.

BDO is the brand name for the BDO network and for each of the BDO Member Firms. BDO USA, P.C., a Virginia professional corporation, is the U.S. member of BDO International Limited, a UK company limited by guarantee, and forms part of the international BDO network of independent member firms. For more information, please visit: www.bdo.com.

ABOUT ALBANE VALENZUELA

Born in New York City, and raised in Mexico City and Geneva, Switzerland, Albane Valenzuela is one of the rising stars of women’s golf. She turned professional after a decorated amateur career at Stanford University, having earned her full 2020 LPGA Tour card via the LPGA Q-Series.

During her four years at Stanford University, she rose to second in the World Amateur Golf Rankings and won multiple elite tournaments. She finished runner-up in the 2017 and 2019 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships and was the 2019 Pac-12 Golfer of the Year (first in program history). Albane represented Team Switzerland in the 2016, 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games and Team Europe in the 2024 Solheim Cup.

Albane co-founded “ Alexis for Autism ” with her brother, Alexis, and together they have raised over $300,000 for ASD research.

Albane Valenzuela

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press is returning to a federal courtroom on Thursday to ask a judge to restore its full access to presidential events, after the White House retaliated against the news outlet last month for not following President Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico.

In a hearing last month, U.S. District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden refused the AP’s request for an injunction to stop the White House from barring reporters and photographers from events in the Oval Office and Air Force One. He urged the Trump administration to reconsider its ban before Thursday’s hearing. It hasn't.

“It seems pretty clearly viewpoint discrimination,” McFadden told the government's attorney at the time.

The AP has sued Trump’s team for punishing a news organization for using speech that it doesn’t like. The news outlet said it would still refer to the Gulf of Mexico in its style guidance to clients around the world, while also noting that Trump has ordered it renamed the Gulf of America.

“For anyone who thinks the Associated Press’s lawsuit against President Trump’s White House is about the name of a body of water, think bigger,” Julie Pace, the AP’s executive editor, wrote in an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. “It’s really about whether the government can control what you say.”

The White House said it has the right to decide who gets to question the president, and has taken steps to take over a duty that has been handled by journalists for decades.

The president has dismissed the AP as a group of “radical left lunatics” and said that “we’re going to keep them out until such time as they agree that it’s the Gulf of America.”

The AP has still covered the president, and has been permitted in White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt’s press briefings, but the ban has cost the organization time in reporting and impeded its efforts to get still images. Even if McFadden rules in favor of the news organization, it’s unclear how the White House will respond to the judge’s order.

The White House Correspondents' Association has asked its members to show solidarity with the AP on Thursday, perhaps by showing up at the courtroom or wearing a pin that signifies the importance of the First Amendment.

The case is one of several aggressive moves the second Trump administration has taken against the press since his return to office, including FCC investigations against ABC, CBS and NBC News, dismantling the government-run Voice of America and threatening funding for public broadcasters PBS and NPR.

A Trump executive order to change the name of the United States’ largest mountain back to Mount McKinley from Denali is being recognized by the AP. Trump has the authority to do so because the mountain is completely within the country he oversees, AP has said.

Writing in the Journal, Pace said the AP didn’t ask for the fight and made efforts to resolve the issue before going to court, but needed to stand on principle.

“If we don’t step up to defend Americans’ right to speak freely," she wrote, "who will?”

David Bauder covers media for The Associated Press. Follow him at

FILE - The Associated Press logo is shown at the entrance to the news organization's office in New York on Thursday, July 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Aaron Jackson, File