D. Afinogenov, was born on October 31, 1961 in the city of Serpukhov of the Moscow region.
In 1984 graduated from the Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communication majoring in the Engineer-economist.
From 1993 to 1998, worked in the Moscow representative office of the international company Ernst&Young, at different positions.
From 1998 to 2002 held a post of the financial controller, financial statements manager in PepsiCo Holding company.
In 2002 it passed into JSC VimpelCom to a position of the regional financial controller, in 2003 becomes the director of planning and the management reporting, from 2005 to 2007 – the director of treasury, 2007 – 2010 - the chief financial officer on the CIS countries, August, 2010 – is appointed by the Vice president for management of finance, purchases and administrative matters.