November 24, 2009 (FinancialWire) — American Electric Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AETI) the premium global provider of custom-designed power infrastructure solutions for the traditional and renewable energy industries, announced the appointment of two new executives focused on increasing the company’s prevalence in the Gulf Coast industrial services markets.

Marcelo Garcia joins AETI as manager of the High Voltage Services group in Houston. He will be responsible for increasing the company’s Houston industrial services business including both field services and in-shop services. Prior to AETI, Garcia was the Houston division sales and operations manager for Electrical Power Systems . During his career, he also served as the Phoenix division operations manager for Hampton Tedder Technical Services in Tempe, Ariz., and has worked for Dashiell Corp., Calpine Corp. and Powell Industries.

AETI also announced that Dean Swift has been hired to serve as manager for the company’s Beaumont Services. In his new role, he will be responsible for working with the industrial, refinery, marine and power generation segments in the Golden Triangle and west Louisiana markets. Swift joins the company from Coastal Switchgear, a company that sells and repairs new, used, reconditioned and obsolete medium- and low-voltage electrical circuit breakers, motor controls and switchgear, where he was a field service operations manager. Prior to Coastal Switchgear, he was a senior field testing technician, and has held important roles at companies including Shermco Industries, ECP Tech Services, Testronics and BES. Swift holds an associate’s degree in power distribution from Texas State Technical Institute.

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