Bob Serr is divine's Vice President of Collaboration. With an expertise in building large, Internet-based, distributed systems using open standards technologies, he has a leadership role in steering the feature set, technical direction and overall architecture of divine's collaboration products. Prior to joining divine, Serr was vice president of engineering at Xqsite, an e-commerce integration firm. Under his direction, the company delivered the technology for several large business-to-business exchanges. Earlier, he co-founded and was CEO of Experio Technologies, where he created several distributed, transactional systems for multinational financial and media companies. He has held consulting positions with The Revere Group and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and research and development positions at Anderson Consulting and Geospectra Corporation.

Serr frequently speaks at industry and corporate events, including the Kellogg Entrepreneurial Forum at Northwestern University, COMDEX/Atlanta, C-SPIN, OASIS Web Services for Remote Portlets Standards Meeting, Siemens Building Technologies Development User Group, Inprise User Group and the Omicron RoundTable Interchange. He earned a master's degree in business administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan.