Those who do not take risks do not drink champagne
Tomáš Šulák was born on the 14th of March 1971 in Valašské Meziříčí. He grew up in the village of Hutisko-Solanec. His father was an electrician, his mother worked as a shopkeeper in a grocery store. After graduating from the grammar school in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm he worked as a manual worker in Tesla Rožnov. He is a witness of the Velvet Revolution in Rožnov pod Radhoštěm. In the year 1990 he was accepted into the politology programme at Univerzita Palackého in Olomouc. He is a witness of the building of this field, which was forbidden under the communists. After school he worked as a journalist at the newly founded regional editorial office of Český rozhlas in Olomouc, in the years 1995 to 2005 he worked as an editor of the Olomouc branch of Mladá fronta Dnes. He was a member of ODA and then later TOP 09. From the year 2010 he is the mayor of the village Veselíčko na Přerovsku.