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Elisabeth Diana , drumhead of communication at human resources platform Deel , is no longer with the company , according to herLinkedIn profile .
Bloomberg firstreported the newsthat Diana had resigned from Deel , which was late accused of planting a spy at rival company wavelet .
TechCrunch attain out to Diana but had not heard back at the prison term of issue . Her LinkedIn profile shows that she started working at Deel ( whose CEO Alex Bouaziz is pictured above ) in November 2021 and stopped working there in April 2025 . She was previously head of communication at Instagram and corporate head of communication at Facebook .
“ We are thankful for the work Elisabeth did while at Deel and wish her the best in her next endeavor , ” the company said in a statement .
Rippling , a hands direction platform , announcedon March 17 that it was suing Deel over say spying , raze charges ranging from infringement of the RICO racketeering act ( often used to prosecute members of the Mafia ) to misappropriation of deal secrets and unjust competition .
At that time , Rippling did n’t reveal the name of the employee in doubt , but that changed on April 2 , when itreleased an affidavitsigned by the employee , Keith O’Brien , who seemed to confirm Rippling ’s charge .
Even more than thealready - spectacular lawsuit that Rippling lodge against Deelin March , O’Brien ’s account interpret like the script to a movie about corporate espionage , complete with a sting operation and a smashed earphone .
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The future of Deel , which waslast valued at $ 12.6 billion , remains in question . The startup is backed by the likes of General Catalyst , Andreessen Horowitz , Spark Capital , and Y Combinator . It was enounce to beeyeing the public marketsjust two months ago .
Deel answer to Rippling ’s lawsuit with a statement denying “ all effectual misconduct ” and lay claim its rival was seeking to “ switch the narrative ” from accusations that wavelet violated Russian sanctions . ( O’Brien later enunciate that at the goading of Deel executives , he ’d made statement to various bureau tell that Rippling was facilitating Russian payments — even though he knew those instruction were pretended . )
This berth has been updated with a command about Diana ’s departure from Deel , and with more circumstance about O’Brien ’s statements .
