Its six villages are cut off from the rest of the country, except for a single mountain road that runs through a broad belt of virgin forest that forms part of the Swiss National Park.
Follow Parks Road south for about five minutes to where it morphs into Catte Street, crossing TheBroad, and you will reach the 15th-century Bodleian Library, its facade decorated with unusual gargoyles.
An internal shake-up last July made Perlmutter one of two executives described as being "peer plus one" with broad responsibilities under Chief Executive Paul Otellini, and an obvious candidate to become the boss at some point down theroad.