How many employees does Deel have?

Public profiles report about 7,500 employees in 2025.

Who should vendors contact?

Use Deel's sales/contact routes and map to the relevant product or operations function.

Who are Deel's decision-makers?

Deel is founder-led by Alex Bouaziz and Shuo Wang, with a large operating bench across payroll, compliance, legal, HR, IT, finance, sales, and country operations.

CEO: Alex Bouaziz
CRO: Shuo Wang
Founded: 2019
Employees: 7,500 reported
HQ: Distributed global
Notable: $1B+ run-rate scale

Alex BouazizCo-founder & CEOCo-founder, since 2019Leads Deel's global payroll and workforce infrastructure strategy.
Shuo WangCo-founder & Chief Revenue OfficerCo-founder, since 2019Key commercial leader and co-founder behind Deel's international GTM expansion.
Dan WestgarthChief Operating OfficerExecutive teamOperator associated with Deel's country, payroll, and global infrastructure scale-up.
Ofer SimonCo-founderCo-founder, since 2019Listed among Deel's founding team in public profiles.

Who leads Deel?

Alex Bouaziz is co-founder and CEO. Shuo Wang is co-founder and chief revenue officer. Deel's leadership model is global and operations-heavy because the product touches compliance, payments, payroll, benefits, and local entities.

Who actually makes buying decisions at Deel?

Buying decisions can involve product, engineering, payroll ops, compliance, legal, finance, security, procurement, IT, customer success, and regional/country operations. Sellers need to identify the product line they support.

How is Deel organized as it scales?

Deel scales through owned entities, country teams, payroll operations, HR software, IT products, acquisitions, and enterprise sales. That creates many specialized buying committees rather than one simple software buyer.

As of June 2026.Sources:Deel leadership - Alex Bouaziz Deel about

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