NEW YORK US & LONDON UK, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HiBob, the people platform for the modern world of work, announced today that Chief People Officer Nirit Peled-Muntz has been named the 2026 HR Leader of Distinction by HR Executive, one of the world’s leading HR trade publications.
The honor recognises exceptional HR leaders whose work is shaping both business performance and the future of the profession. Peled-Muntz will be celebrated at an awards ceremony in October, during the HR Tech conference period in Las Vegas.
For the past six years, Peled-Muntz has led HiBob’s global People team across the Americas, Europe, ANZ and the Middle East, helping the company grow from 150 employees to more than 1,400. At a defining period in HiBob’s growth, she has built a people function that treats culture, leadership and organizational capability not as support services, but as essential drivers of business success.
Her recognition reflects the belief that companies are best placed to adapt and understand their organizations as well as they understand their markets.
“HR has a defining role to play in the next era of business,” said Ronni Zehavi, co-founder and CEO of HiBob. “AI will transform how work gets done, but it will not build high-performing organizations on its own. That will depend on leaders who understand their people, their capabilities and how teams work together. Nirit has built that kind of company at HiBob, and this award is a very well-deserved recognition of her impact.”
Peled-Muntz believes HR’s role is to enable company strategy and success. That simple principle has informed her approach at HiBob of understanding the CEO’s vision and the product deeply, then creating the conditions for people and teams to deliver it.
“The future of work will not be defined by the technology organizations buy, but by how well they organize people, skills and leadership around it,” said Peled-Muntz. “HR must help businesses build the clarity, trust and capability to succeed through change. I am incredibly proud of the culture we have created at HiBob and of the people who bring it to life every day.”
As the workplace evolves, Peled-Muntz’s leadership offers a powerful example for the industry. The most effective People leaders are no longer simply responding to business change, they are helping to shape and bring together human insight, organizational context and commercial ambition to build companies that can adapt and thrive.
This recognition celebrates Nirit’s individual contribution, but also HiBob’s conviction that people strategy is business strategy. As the company enters its next phase of growth, that conviction will remain central to building an ambitious, resilient and AI-ready organization.
About HiBob
HiBob is the people platform for the modern world of work. Its award-winning solution, Bob, connects HR, payroll, and finance in a single solution, providing organizations with a trusted foundation for managing their people and operations. Building on this foundation of verified workforce data, HiBob delivers organizational intelligence directly into the systems where work happens, serving as critical infrastructure for the AI-powered enterprise that bridges the gap between people and agents.
Engineered for modern organizational dynamics, HiBob empowers leaders to gain deep visibility into their people and capabilities, identify skill gaps, strategize workforce planning, and foster clear accountability. Today, thousands of mid-sized and enterprise organizations across more than 170 countries rely on HiBob to build more agile, high-performing cultures.
To learn more, visit www.hibob.com.
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