David Molony researches and reports on global managed services providers and multinational corporate users, focusing on convergence of voice, data, mobile and IT networks and services. David has more than 20 years’ experience in telecoms business journalism. He was formerly editor in chief of Total Telecom and editor of industry newspaper CommunicationsWeek International.

David was awarded the title International Business Editor of the Year by the Association of Online Publishers in 2003. He has chaired and presented at conferences in Brussels, London, New York and Tokyo. David spent 12 years with international financial news agency Reuters and worked at Kagan World Media as a European media industry analyst. He holds a BA (Hons.) degree in History from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.

Sean Collins is Chairman of KPMG’s Global Telecommunications and Media Practice. Sean has a MA in Classics, Cambridge University and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.  Sean became a partner in 1985, when he commenced a four year secondment to the Kuala Lumpur office of KPMG.  Back in London office in 1989, Sean developed an increasing specialisation in telecommunications.  He has led a number of major assignments for major European telecoms companies, in such areas as financial management consulting, mergers and acquisitions, bid defence,  acquisitions and disposals, many flotations, profit and cash forecasts and new investments, both in the UK and internationally. 

His work in telecommunications has involved work in over 20 countries and he is responsible for the global position of KPMG’s accounting, audit, tax, advisory and lead services to the telecommunications and media industries.

Kenneth Cukier is the Japan business correspondent of The Economist. He also covers technology, and was previously the newspaper’s IT and telecoms writer in London. Earlier, he was the Technology Editor of The Wall Street Journal Asia in Hong Kong, the European Editor of Red Herring magazine, a senior editor at CommunicationsWeek International (the precursor to Totaltele.com), and worked at The International Herald Tribune in Paris.

From 2002 to 2004, Mr Cukier was a research fellow at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where he worked on the internet and international relations. Additionally, Mr Cukier is on the board of advisors to the Daniel Pearl Foundation and is a term-member of the Council on Foreign Relations. 

Anne Morris is editor of Total Telecom, the world’s only integrated print and online information service for the telecoms industry. She moved from the position of editor, online, to take over editorship of the magazine from David Molony in February this year. Total Telecom Magazine reports extensively on telecoms managed services for corporate users, especially broadband access and services, operator strategies, and the changing business relationships of network operators, systems integrators and equipment vendors, as they shift into service provision in the competitive marketplace.

Anne previously worked as production editor on Total Telecom's predecessor CommunicationsWeek International, which she joined in 1996. Prior to joining CWI she worked as a business translator and editor at Reuters for seven years.

Audrey Mandela is an independent consultant, working on strategy, market analysis, and competitor analysis projects with a wide variety of industry players and investors.

Audrey was formerly Senior Vice President, International, for the Yankee Group, where she was responsible for managing all of the Yankee Group's research and sales activities in Europe, Latin America and Asia. Audrey’s areas of expertise include global networking, carrier strategies and alliances, international communications regulation, managed network services, and electronic commerce. She is the author of many studies on these subjects, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences around the world.  Ms Mandela holds a bachelor's degree from Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts.

Audrey is also co-founder and former board director of Multimap.com, Europe’s leading on-line mapping services company. Multimap was sold to Microsoft in December 2007.

Ed graduated from the The Hague University with a bachelor degree in Radio Communications, The Haarlem University with a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering and from the Amsterdam University with a bachelor degree in Business Management. He joints the Dutch Civil Aviation Authorities in 1970 where he was made responsible for Instrument Landing systems and navigation aids flight-testing. He left this service in 1980 for a carrier with the former Dutch public carrier, now KPN. After 5 years working he left for a more exiting job as telecommunications advisor/project leader for the Royal Dutch Shell group. Although stationed at The Hague he worked on various projects amongst others in Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Gabon, Bangladesh, Nepal, Syria, Columbia and Norway. He retired from Shell after 20 years of service in April 2004 and stated his own company in Telecom Consultancy.

Ed is now 10 years active within the European Virtual Network User Association (EVUA). He was former board member and chairman. After retirement from Shell he was asked to lead the organisation and to become their CEO. His main activities are focusing on commercial aspect, development of Enterprise Network Services and relation with suppliers and other user groups.

Ed interest in the telecommunications market ranges from better service definitions for nuts and bolt services toward complete outsourcing of Enterprise Infrastructure Services. Although critical towards what the market can deliver on a global scale, Ed’s vision remains that outsourcing holds the future and that multinationals will look towards service providers that can deliver enterprise infrastructure services in a competitive and open market.