About DA

Who We Are

DesignerAdvantage, Inc. is the first company to provide a fully integrated bookkeeping, project administration and business management service exclusively to the interior design trade. These services enable interior designers to focus more time on their core competencies – sales and customer service – while improving both their overall profitability, capacity for growth and quality of life on the job. In fact, with DA on board, our clients happily:

  • Refocus time and energy to quality and thoughtful design and architecture
  • Run their office’s with efficiency and organization
  • Avoid costly administrative mistakes
  • Gain clarity on the financial position of their business
  • Work with an industry professional to strategize and plan ahead
  • Access expert advice for all business decisions including structuring contracts and pricing services, among others
  • Eliminate financial risk of hiring, firing, and managing employees
  • Cut overhead costs with DA’s flexible fee structure, based on your revenue

History

DA was founded in January 2000 by Tom Ruskin, the owner of a high end, “trade only” manufacturing company, and Marc Molinsky, who obtained his CPA after working at Ernst & Young for nearly five years. Tom and Marc recognized that there were no cost effective solutions available to assist designers with running the business side of a design business. For over ten years, DA has accumulated a wealth of knowledge on how to run a profitable design and architecture business and prides itself on not only providing outstanding bookkeeping services, but also providing valuable financial, sales and operational value-added advice to its clients. DA has established a culture that is dedicated to integrity, hard work, and excellence in all that we do for our clients.

Management

CEO: Marc A. Molinsky

DA is led by the nation’s leading expert on the business of interior design and architecture, CEO Marc A. Molinsky. Marc is a graduate of Boston College and was formerly a CPA at Ernst & Young LLP before founding DesignerAdvantage in 2000.

Growing up in a family that focussed on the world of business and the world of fine art provided Marc the inspiration to create DesignerAdvantage, Inc. in January 2000.

Marc spent his childhood days in Indiana and Ohio. He followed his father’s and brother’s footsteps and became a CPA while working in the Boston office of Ernst & Young LLP. Marc’s father, George D. Molinsky, began his career as a CPA at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells and later became President and CEO of Batesville Casket Company, the nation’s largest casket manufacturer and subsequently the President and CEO of Reynolds & Reynolds.

Marc is a passionate golf enthusiast and he even beat Tiger Woods in a long drive competition when he was 17! Marc also has a love of college basketball and received a full scholarship to play Division 1 basketball at Boston College where he was captain of the team and the first basket player in the school’s history to receive the Big-East Scholar Athlete of the Year award in 1995.

Marc’s sophisticated background in accounting, when combined with over 12 years of industry experience, establishes his knowledge and insight of the business of interior design and architecture unprecedented in the industry.

Marc currently lives outside of Boston with his wife and two young children.