Dan Westgarth

analysisWestgarth is Deel's chief operating officer, responsible for global operations including payroll operations and compliance; his published biography says he previously held senior leadership roles at Revolut. A Revolut Business case study, undated in the retained copy, quotes him praising Revolut's service, which Deel uses to pay contractors. ^{1 2}

analysisRippling's amended complaint of 5 June 2025 added Westgarth as a defendant. It alleges that by December 2024 Alex Bouaziz told O'Brien that Westgarth would "see to it" that O'Brien's consulting company Global Payroll Geeks received money from Deel, and that a WhatsApp group named "Keith <> Dan" was created on 9 January 2025; and that between 29 January and 17 February 2025 Deel executives approached at least 17 members of Rippling's payroll team using contacts from O'Brien, most of whom Westgarth personally called with offers of jobs. These are Rippling's allegations; no court has ruled on them. Deel's counterclaims say Alex Bouaziz saw Global Payroll Geeks as a potentially useful business partner after O'Brien told him in 2024 that he had founded it. ^{1 2 3}

analysisThe magistrate judge's order of 17 November 2025 records that Alba Basha, a Revolut customer whose records were made public, is married to Westgarth, and describes a payment from Lets Deel Ltd to Basha followed by a corresponding payment from Basha to O'Brien. In the Irish proceedings a judge remarked at an April 2025 hearing, after Rippling presented evidence linking Basha to Westgarth, that it "could be a coincidence, but it's unlikely". The order rules on confidentiality only and the remark is not a finding; what the payments were for has not been decided and remains disputed. Rippling's complaint states that Basha is not a Deel employee. ^{4 3 5 6}