Donegal-based business leader Larissa Feeney has been named CEO of the Year at the IMAGE PwC Businesswoman of the Year Awards 2026. The award, presented by Primeline Global, was announced last night in recognition of Ms Feeney’s leadership as CEO and founder of Kinore. Kinore, formerly Accountant Online, is a cloud accounting and advisory firm. The business was launched online in 2015 and has since grown into a remote-first company with offices in Letterkenny, Dublin, Derry and South Africa. Around 25% of its team is based in Donegal at the company’s headquarters at the CoLab Building at ATU in Letterkenny. Originally from Sligo, Ms Feeney first qualified in hospitality management before becoming a Chartered Accountant in 2005. She was previously shortlisted for the IMAGE Businesswoman of the Year Award in both 2017 and 2018. In 2018, she was named Accountant of the Year at the Irish Accountancy Awards. Accountant Online also secured a number of major industry awards before its rebrand, including Best Small Practice in 2017, Best Medium Practice in 2018, and Medium Practice of the Year and Practice of the Year in 2020. In 2022, Ms Feeney was named Letterkenny Business Person of the Year. She was also elected president of Donegal Women in Business Network in 2023, a role she held until 2025. The company rebranded from Accountant Online to Kinore in 2024 with plans to double its workforce to reflect its expanded range of accountancy and business support services.