(Telecompaper) Swisscom has appointed Urs Schaeppi as its new CEO. He has been with the company for 15 years, serving as head of the corporate business since 2007 and head of Switzerland since the start of 2013. He replaces Carsten Schloter, who died in July. Schaeppi takes over with immediate effect and also announced a restructure of the company's enterprise business, to merge the Corporate Business and IT Services activities. From 1 January 2014, all corporate customers will be served by the new Enterprise Customers division. He said he will otherwise continue the group's current strategy and pursue grow opportunities in areas such as cloud solutions, home networking and eHealth.