Date of birth

29 November 1952

Place of birth

Marijampolė, Lithuania

Education

1973–1976

Certificate in Metalworking and Organisation of Work, Evening Secondary School No 1 in Kaunas

1968–1970

Certificate of Moldmaker, Vocational Technical School No 40 (currently Mechanical School) in Kaunas

Work experience

1991–2016

Director, private company UAB Pūkas

2009–2016

Author, journalist, programme Kitokia Lietuva

1985–1991

Sound Record Operator, Public Domestic Service in Kaišiadorys

1980–1982

Technician, Research Sector, Kaunas Medical Institute (currently Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)

1977

Foreman, Gasification Service in Kaunas

1974 –1977

Engineer, Precast Reinforced Concrete Frames Factory in Petrašiūnai

1973

Supplier, Department of Education, Panemunė District, Kaunas

1970

Moldmaker, Juozas Greifenbergeris factory

Political career

No party affiliation

2015–2016

Member, Kaunas City Municipal Council; Chair, Anticorruption Commission

Miscellaneous

President, Association Kitokia Lietuva (2010)

Founder and President, Lithuanian Music Industry Association (1994); Founder, Lithuanian Agency of Related Rights AGATA (1999)

Awards: for the invention in the process of developing Rezolver gadget for monitoring cardiac activity of a cosmonaut on Soyuz spaceship (1982); Golden Star from LATGA–A for anti-piracy activities (2010)

Foreign languages: Russian

Hobbies: writing poetry, angling, hunting, music, singing

Family

Married with nine children