Elisabeth Diana, Director of Communications of Human Resources Deel, is no longer with the company, according to her LinkedIn profile.
Bloomberg first reported the news that Diana had renounced Deel, who was recently accused of planting a spy in the rival Rippleing company.
Techcrunch contacted Diana, but had not had news at the time of publication. His LinkedIn profile shows that she began working in Deel (whose CEO Alex Bouaziz is shown above) in November 2021 and stopped working there in April 2025. He was previously director of Communications at Instagram and director of Corporate Communications of Facebook.
“We are grateful for the work Elisabeth did while in Deel and we wished her the best in her next effort,” the company said in a statement.
Rippleing, a workforce management platform, announced On March 17, I was demanding from alleged spy charges, leveling the positions ranging from the violation of the Rico Extortion Law (often used to process the members of the Mafia) to improper appropriation of commercial secrets and unfair competition.
At that time, Ripppling did not reveal the name of the employee in question, but that changed on April 2, when he launched an affidavit signed by the employee, Keith O’Brien, who seemed to confirm the accusations of Rippleing.
Even more than the already spectacular demand that Rippleing appeared against Deel in March, O’Brien’s account is read as the script to a film about corporate espionage, completed with a sting operation and a shattered phone.
The future of Deel, which was last valued at $ 12.6 billion, remains in question. The startup is backed by the tastes of General Catalyst, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital E and Combinator. It was said that I was watching public markets only two months ago.
Deel responded to Rippleing’s demand with a statement that denies “all legal irregularities” and claiming that his rival was trying to “change the narrative” of the accusations that undulating violated the Russian sanctions. (O’Brien later said that when I urge the executives of Deel, he had made statements to several authorities who said that Ondular was facilitating the Russian payments, although he knew that those statements were false).
This publication has been updated with a statement on the deviation of Diana de Deel and with more context about O’Brien’s statements.
