Bob Fine is Director of Product Marketing. In this role, he leads the team responsible for the planning and launch of Compellent’s enterprise network storage products. With more than 16 years experience in the data storage and networking industry, Fine also engages end-users via the company's longstanding customer council, the C3, to incorporate their feedback directly into the development of Compellent products. Before joining Compellent in 2003, he was a product manager at network supplier Cisco Systems, where he helped introduce one of the company's first storage networking products. From 1992 to 2000, he held various product marketing and strategic planning positions at Ciprico, a data storage technology company. Fine holds an executive master of business administration in medical technology from St. Thomas University in Minneapolis, Minn., and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Mich.