OREANDA-NEWS. On 15 January 2009 OJSC “MegaFon”, the first pan-Russian mobile operator, informed of a new appointment. Mr. Dmitry Kononov took a recently established position of the Director for Business Development - Mergers & Acquisitions in MegaFon.

“I am happy to inform that Dmitry Kononov came back to our team. He had proved to be a highly professional expert. He has huge experience in structuring deals, raising finance and negotiating with financial institutions – he will need all that at his new position”, said Mr. Sergey Soldatenkov, Chief Executive Officer of MegaFon.

Dmitry Leonovich Kononov got the B.S.B.A. degree in financial accounting at the University of Colorado, he has the professional CPA (Certified Public Accountant) certificate. He also had the professional development course in the University of Denver focusing on tax issues.

Dmitry has wide experience of working in large global companies. In 1990-1993, he was in charge of financial analysis for key customers of the regional office of GHPS & Co, CPA’s (formerly the Denver office of transnational audit firm Laventhol & Horwath). In 1993-1999, he was the First Deputy Managing Director of Delta Telecom, and also was the Finance Controller in The US West International.

After transformation of The US West International into MediaOne International Dmitry continued to work in MediaOne International as the Chief Financial Officer of its Russian subsidiary RTDC from 1999 till 2000.

Since end of 2000, Dmitry became the adviser for the Board of The First National Holding S.A. His responsibility area included acquisition and consolidation of assets that were later combined under MegaFon brand.

In 2002, he was appointed as the Chief Financial Officer of MegaFon, and in 2004, he again became the adviser in The First National Holding S.A. and took positions in the boards of major subsidiaries of Telecominvest.

Since mid-2007, Dmitry worked as the adviser for the Executive Director  of Eventis Telecom Holdings.

In early December, Dmitry accepted the offer and joined MegaFon as the Director for Business Development - Mergers & Acquisitions.

At his new position Dmitry will be in charge of structuring deals, negotiating with potential partners, financial analysis and due diligence. Dmitry’s scope of duties will also include preparing materials on potential transactions and presenting them to the company’s management.