He was born 1968 in Námestovo. He graduated in 1993 at Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Medicine and started to work in Hospital in Skalica. He worked as a marketing manager in Pfizer Inc between 1996-2003, afterwards worked for Sanofi Aventis (2003-2005) and 2005-2006 was director for Slovakia in Bristol Myers Squibb In 2006 – 2009 he worked as a Director General for Czech Republic and Slovakia in Ozone Laboratories, s. r. o. In 2009 he was a strategy and marketing director for hospital in Skalica. He was appointed as a Slovak minister of healthcare in July 2010.