Thomas John Zacchaeus Winnifrith (born January 1968) is a former British journalist, share tipster and former fund manager.

Tom Winnifrith was born in 1968^[1] He studied PPE at the University of Oxford (1987–90), graduating with a lower second degree.^[2]

Tom Winnifrith is the founder and editor^[3] of the website Shareprophets.com. He was at one stage chief executive and founder^[4] of former ISDX listed Rivington Street Holdings (RSH)^[5][6] before stepping down in 2011.^[7][8]

He has formerly worked as a financial journalist for Investors Chronicle and the London Evening Standard. Winnifrith was the resident investment expert on the Channel 4 game show Show Me The Money.^[8]

Winnifrith was expelled from the Liberal Democrat Party by Paddy Ashdown in 1993 for allegedly "pandering to racism". He was subject to an investigation by Metropolitan Police Service at the request of the Attorney General at the time, Sir Nicholas Lyell, and then Shadow Cabinet Minister Jack Straw, which found no wrongdoing.^[9]

In September 2017, Winnifrith authored an article that claimed that the FCA would not be shutting down Beaufort Securities.^[10] In March 2018, Beaufort Securities was shut down, declared insolvent, and charged with fraud, following a joint FCA, FBI, SEC and DOJ investigation.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

His time as CEO of Rivington Street Holdings (RSH) has also come under criticism, including accusations of multiple compliance failures while running a regulated company and acting "ultra vires", attempting to sell an FSA regulated entity without the approval of the RSH board ^[16]

Tom is married to Ranji Devadason,^[17] sociology lecturer at Keele University.^[18] The journalist and author Christopher Booker was his uncle.^[19][20] Winnifrith’s mother committed suicide in 1976.^[21] Tom is a friend of Kelvin Mackenzie and considers him to be his journalistic hero.^[22][23] In his spare time, Tom enjoys fraternising with Marrows and other British garden vegetables,^[24] and also pens enthusiastic articles about his home renovations and sometimes fraught relationship with local planning consultees, citing local opponents to his work as 'in-bred'.^[25]