Management Team

John Jeffrey Plakans, President

A 15 year veteran of the payroll and HR industries, Jeff's experience in creating payroll and HR solutions that have an efficient and user-centric focus is born of his own evolution as a business owner. As the president of Payrolls Plus, Jeff guided the company's explosive pattern of growth from 500 small business clients in 1999 to over 8,000 in 2005. During this period, Payrolls Plus earned a reputation for effectively leveraging the increasing influence of technology yet maintaining a high level of personalized and thorough client service. In late 2005, Jeff helped oversee the merger between Payrolls Plus and software company Payroll Associates to form PayChoice, a national payroll provider.

In 2006 Jeff also founded Commonwealth Cash Management, to focus on the unmeet accounting and bookkeeping needs of small business owners, of its entrepreneur clients as individuals, trusts and estates, affluent families, athletes and entertainers. Today Commonwealth Cash Management enjoys a sister relationship with Commonwealth Payroll & HR.

From 1994-1998, Jeff served as COO of Creative Energy Corporation of Virginia. There, he focused on developing efficient sales and operational interaction modeling to cope with robust growth while maintaining a highly customer-oriented sales and service program.

Jeff has always been passionate about fostering strong client loyalty to his companies. As a result, his companies share a truly unique, flexible service program, where the utmost in security and Web technology is combined with personalization and dedicated personnel to deliver the ultimate client experience.

A 1992 graduate of the University of Maryland, Jeff lives with his family on the North Shore of Massachusetts.