Joyce Plotkin

Joyce Plotkin is one of the most consequential advocates for the Massachusetts technology industry over the past four decades. She served as president of the Massachusetts Software Council, later the Massachusetts Software and Internet Council, for many years, building it into the primary trade organization tracking and representing the Commonwealth's software sector, growing from 800 companies employing 46,000 people in 1989 to a much larger industry at its peak. Known for her sharp economic analysis and her ability to represent the interests of a diverse membership across market cycles, she was a consistent voice for Boston's technology community in policy and public discourse. Her career bridges the early commercial software era and the modern innovation economy of greater Boston.