Swisscom Chief Schloter Found Dead in Suspected Suicide
By Thomas Mulier - Jul 23, 2013 8:45 AM ET
Swisscom AG (SCMN) said Chief Executive Officer Carsten Schloter was found dead at home in a suspected suicide and named Urs Schaeppi interim CEO of Switzerland’s largest phone company.
There’s a “very high” probability Schloter, 49, killed himself, Pierre-Andre Waeber, a spokesman for the police, said by phone. The company said it’s in mourning and won’t disclose any further details out of consideration for his family.
Swisscom Chief Executive Officer Carsten Schloter arrives for a news conference in Milan in this file photo taken on Wednesday, March 14, 2007.
Swisscom Chief Executive Officer Carsten Schloter arrives for a news conference in Milan in this file photo taken on Wednesday, March 14, 2007. Photographer: Giuseppe Aresu/Bloomberg
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Swisscom Says CEO Carsten Schloter Found Dead at Home Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
Swisscom said it’s in mourning and won’t disclose any further details out of consideration for his family.
Swisscom said it’s in mourning and won’t disclose any further details out of consideration for his family. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
.Swisscom’s boards and workforce are “deeply saddened and pass on their condolences to the family and relatives,” Chairman Hansueli Loosli said in a statement. Christian Neuhaus, a spokesman for Swisscom, declined to comment further.
Schloter, a German citizen, joined Bern-based Swisscom in 2000 and became CEO in 2006. Schaeppi is head of its Swiss business. Waeber declined to give any further details.
The shares fell 1.6 percent from their intraday level and traded 0.7 percent lower at 414.40 Swiss francs as of 1:58 p.m. in Zurich.
To contact the reporter on this story: Thomas Mulier in Geneva at tmulier@bloomberg.net
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