Oakdale, MN - Apr 30, 2007 - Small Tree Communications, a networking and storage solutions company, has appointed Jeffrey Bipes to director of marketing and sales. Bipes will be responsible for continuing and facilitating Small Tree's growth in markets dependent on higher bandwidth and system performance.

Bipes comes to Small Tree with nearly 25 years experience in sales and marketing for companies such as Apple and Autodesk. Prior to joining Small Tree, Bipes owned and operated Chromium Switch Products, a supplier of CRM/IT/Custom Product Solutions serving the small business environment. Before that he served as business development manager for Metaphase Technology. Bipes was product and marketing manager for Autodesk and Apple prior to that.