Carsten Schloter, head of Switzerland’s largest telecommunications company, Swisscom, has been found dead at his home in Villars-sur-Glâne near Fribourg, the company has confirmed. He was 49.
An inquest will determine the circumstances of his death, but police are currently treating the death as suicide. Further details were not given out of respect for the family. He was separated from his wife, with whom he had three children.
Schloter, a German national, joined Swisscom in 2000 as the head of the firm’s mobile-communications division and had been CEO since 2006.
He had studied economics in Paris, where he spent much of his youth. He began his career at Mercedes-Benz in France.