eCoast is proud to be led by the following team

Allen Tait, Co-CEO, Chief Financial and Operating Officer


Allen Tait is the co-CEO of eCoast and oversees all Finance and Operations activities within the company. An experienced senior executive with twenty years of results-oriented financial and operational success, Allen holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Bethany College and a Master of Science in Corporate Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Prior to graduate school, Allen worked as an associate for Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York. He began his post-graduate school career in the Specialty Consulting Division of Arthur Andersen & Co. in Chicago, where he assumed interim executive management positions in performance challenged companies to coordinate the development and execution of strategic financial and operational initiatives.

Most recently, Allen served as president, director and founding partner of Sierra Novo LLC, in Columbus, OH, where he co-founded one of the largest online retailers of home gaming and entertainment products, as well as the fastest growing regional retail chain of home furnishings.

Prior to starting Sierra, Allen was a senior member of Sterling Capital Ltd.’s portfolio management team, responsible for the strategic development and execution of portfolio company operations while serving as the CEO of several Sterling portfolio companies.

Chris Montgomery, Co-CEO, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer


Chris Montgomery joined eCoast in 2009 as co-CEO and oversees Marketing, Sales and Business Development at eCoast. With over twenty years of senior executive experience, Chris has deep operational, sales, marketing and business development expertise, and has led growth and turn-around initiatives in retail technology, healthcare, online learning and federal and state government software solutions.

Prior to joining eCoast, Chris served as President and CEO of Intermedia Kiosks, Inc. a retail software firm. While at Intermedia, Chris rationalized product lines, built a management and software development team, mapped and benchmarked business processes and executed an in-depth strategic plan which brought the company to a number one market share position.

From 2002-2005 , Chris led all federal government strategic alliance activities for American Management Systems, a $1billion NASDAQ listed, enterprise software provider, and was the federal practice leader for Performance Assessment Network, a privately-held HR software solution provider.

Chris has also held the title of CEO for a state government solutions provider and Andy Frain Services, a national business process outsourcer, and served as the Executive Vice President of iLearning, Inc., a Sylvan Ventures portfolio company. In addition to his senior executive experience, Chris has eight years of sales experience with Baxter Healthcare.

Chris holds a B.A. in Finance and Marketing from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and resides in Baltimore County, Maryland. In his spare time he enjoys skiing, tennis, golf, and other outdoor activities.

Will Gibney, Vice President, Sales and Marketing 


Will Gibney joined eCoast in 2000 as the seventh eCoast employee.  Will brings over 10 years of sales, marketing and call center management experience to eCoast.  Prior to joining eCoast Will held roles at Sprint Business, Network Plus, and Ecora software. Over the past 8 years, Will has fostered relationships with technology manufacturers, distributors, telecom providers and national and regional channel partners.

Today, Will oversees eCoast's new business and marketing team while managing strategic clients. Will also focuses on new client offerings such as web marketing, Google Adwords,  pay-for-performance appointment setting, email marketing, and partner alliances. In an effort to position eCoast as a "thought leader" in technology marketing specifically via channel partners Will has created a VAR Marketing Blog that gets updated twice a month offering advice, tips and best practices for generating net new business.

Will holds a B.S. in Marketing from University of South Florida where he completed advanced marketing management studies.

Bechir BenSaid, Vice President of Operations


Prior to joining eCoast Bechir spent three years at Pannaway Technologies as Vice President of Operations. Before that, Bechir was with Cabletron Systems for six years, both in Rochester, NH and Beijing, China. In the home office Bechir served in several management positions in Finance and Operations, most recently as Director of Operations and Planning for Enterasys Networks, one of Cabletron's spin-off companies. While in Beijing, Bechir was the Managing Director for Cabletron, China.

Before joining Cabletron, Bechir spent five years in Software Engineering and led the design of the Vermont State Lottery database and security systems. After that, Bechir spent two years as IT Director overseeing the lottery's system development, network management, and real-time transaction systems.

Bechir holds a MBA with honors from Thunderbird and a MS in Computer Science from UVM. Bechir received his BE in Computer Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. He also holds a Diploma in Advanced Chinese Studies from the Beijing Foreign Studies Institute and is fluent in Chinese, French, and Arabic.

Channie Gilbert, Assistant Vice President, Strategic Projects

Channie Gilbert joined eCoast  in 2002. Channie is responsible for developing and growing strategic programs that result in eCoast's valued clients achieving their long-term sales and marketing goals. Since joining eCoast, Channie has been an integral part in the success of all facets of the company from Sales and Sales Management to Client Relations and Program Management.

Channie brings over 13 years of Sales and Management experience to eCoast. Before joining eCoast, Channie established and managed the North American Inside Sales Team at BlueCoat Systems (formerly CacheFlow) where she was responsible for developing all inside sales processes, driving team pipeline growth, and managing team resources. Prior to BlueCoat, Channie developed her skills while rapidly progressing from Sales Development to Inside Sales Manager at Cabletron Systems.Channie holds a B.S in Marketing from Gannon University.

Kevin Lynn, Assistant Vice President, Client Services

Kevin joined eCoast in 2001. He provides leadership to the client account management team by establishing and ensuring a value delivery focus and a commitment to satisfied clients. Kevin and his team play an important role in ensuring that eCoast's clients understand how our services can help them brand their business, grow revenue and develop relationships with net new customers. Kevin emphatically believes that delivering results and exceeding all client expectations is the only way to effectively grow client relationships.

Kevin has 15 years of Program Management and Sales experience. After receiving his degree, Kevin joined the sales organization at Cabletron Systems where he was responsible for creating and developing net new business opportunities within the New York City Financial and Healthcare vertical markets. After successfully driving his team to a multi-million dollar quota, Kevin went on to work as an inside/outside account manager for Visual Networks, where he helped establish a commercial sales/client relations team for North America.

Kevin holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.

Jeff Elias, Regional Vice President, Western Operations

Jeff Elias joined eCoast in 2011. Jeff is tasked with starting eCoast’s western sales region as well as building out and staffing a western call and service center.  Using his extensive knowledge of the technology business Jeff will help customers craft winning GTM strategies for their products and services.  In the past, Jeff built one of the largest ecosystems in the business around mid-market and enterprise mass storage, storage software and services.

Jeff has 25 years of sales and management experience in the technology and technology marketing services sector. Some of the highlights of his career include a 9 year stint at Data General Corporation where Jeff rotated into all areas of sales: direct, channel, distribution and OEM. He worked closely with management and sat on multiple committees to bring the field experience into corporate HQ. During the summer of 1993 Jeff worked on packaging all Data General Professional Services while reporting directly to the SVP of WW Services. The packaged Professional Services offerings were reviewed as industry leading and were based on Jeff’s experience selling computer and storage platforms. Continuing  his interest large scale open enterprise computing, Jeff moved on to manage and run the Latin American Division of Sequent Computer based out of Beaverton, Oregon. In early 2001, Jeff and others from Data General formed SANlight Corporation to  build a massively scalable open storage architecture. SANlight was successfully sold to Quantum in 2002.  During the mid-2000’s Jeff built some of the largest and best in class marketing programs for technology clients that achieved wide recognition for their innovation in the industry.

Jeff holds a BA in General Arts and Sciences from Penn State and spent a semester on a research internship at Tel-Aviv University working in the Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies. During his tenure at Data General, he received an educational leave of absence to pursue a graduate degree at the University of Arizona studying Systems Engineering specializing in Operations Research.