AEP Names Partlow Vice President & Chief Security Officer

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Aug 25, 2015, 10:05 ET

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP) has named Stanley E. Partlow vice president and chief security officer effective Sept. 1. Partlow, 57, has served as managing director - Security & Aviation since 2010. In addition to Partlow's current responsibilities for physical security and AEP aviation, he will oversee the company's cyber security efforts. Partlow will report to Robert P. Powers, executive vice president and chief operating officer.

"Stan's extensive law enforcement experience and his relationships with security experts and law enforcement agencies across the country are an asset to AEP," Powers said. "By combining our physical and cyber security efforts under Stan's leadership, we can leverage the expertise of both teams to make our security operations even more robust in the face of increasingly more sophisticated and persistent threats."

Partlow joined AEP in 2005 as director - Security & Aviation after a distinguished 25-year career in law enforcement. Earlier in his career, Partlow held several supervisory positions with the City of Columbus Division of Police and was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Partlow serves on the boards of Franklin University and the Center for Family Safety and Healing. He holds a juris doctorate degree from Capital University Law School, a master of science degree in administration from Central Michigan University, and a bachelor of arts degree in psychology from Bowling Green State University. In addition, Partlow is a graduate of the Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command and the Ohio Association of Chiefs of Policy Executive Leadership College.

American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to nearly 5.4 million customers in 11 states. AEP ranks among the nation's largest generators of electricity, owning nearly 32,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the U.S. AEP also owns the nation's largest electricity transmission system, a more than 40,000-mile network that includes more 765-kilovolt extra-high voltage transmission lines than all other U.S. transmission systems combined. AEP's transmission system directly or indirectly serves about 10 percent of the electricity demand in the Eastern Interconnection, the interconnected transmission system that covers 38 eastern and central U.S. states and eastern Canada, and approximately 11 percent of the electricity demand in ERCOT, the transmission system that covers much of Texas. AEP's utility units operate as AEP Ohio, AEP Texas, Appalachian Power (in Virginia and West Virginia), AEP Appalachian Power (in Tennessee), Indiana Michigan Power, Kentucky Power, Public Service Company of Oklahoma, and Southwestern Electric Power Company (in Arkansas, Louisiana and east Texas). AEP's headquarters are in Columbus, Ohio.