Mr. Ľubomír Galko has been appointed Minister of Defence of the Slovak Republic in July this year. Prior to that assignment (from 2004) he worked as the Director of DONA DN Company (JCS) in Bratislava. He is a member and a Vice President of the political party Freedom and Solidarity, which won entry to the National Council of the Slovak Republic in the parliamentary election in June this year. Before entering politics, he worked as a manager in charge of network of retail & wholesale stores and software applications development (1993 – 2001), Director of Kaufland Hypermarket (2001 – 2003) and from 2003 to 2004 he held the position of the Deputy Director in the Interfluct Slovakia Company.