About Us
Tom Winnifrith
Tom Winnifrith, the editor of t1ps.com, started his career in the City before moving to The Investors Chronicle. He starred in TV's Show Me The Money and was the founder of Red Hot Penny Shares (RHPS) as well as being a contributing editor to Shares Magazine. He has been editing t1ps.com since its launch in 2000. Away from work, his interests are West Ham United, the Ireland Rugby team, cooking and worrying about his weight. Tom is 42, divorced and lives with his partner and cat in Shoreditch.
Evil Knievil
Fresh from making £1 million shorting Northern Rock, the man the Daily Mail dubbed ‘The King of the Short Sellers’ (otherwise known as Simon Cawkwell) is Britain's most feared bear-raider. A trained accountant, he made his name exposing the fiction that were Bob Maxwell's accounts. Evil does not give investment advice on this website but three times a week he chats to his faithful diarist - Tom Winnifrith. His diarist then writes and takes full responsibility for the Evil Knievil diaries.
Zak Mir
Technical Analysis
40 year old Zak Mir is our Technical Analysis Editor. An LSE drop-out, in 2000 Zak started writing for thestreet.co.uk and UK-iNvest. He resigned as technical editor of Shares Magazine to start his own website and appears regularly on Bloomberg TV and CNBC as well as masterminding his own Technical Analysis site Zaks-TA.com. Hobbies centre around music, songwriting and keeping his wife sweet.
Robert Sutherland – Smith
Robert started his career in fund management and has seen numerous stock market and economic cycles and (as he likes to wryly comment) one or two short lived ‘new paradigms’ of stock market and economic possibility, like the dot com boom at the end of the 20th century. An economist by education, his first job was as trainee equity analyst with the long vanished broking partnership de Zoete & Gorton. After that, he worked as a fund manager for the Unilever Pension fund and subsequently as the head of financial and investment management research at Merchant Bankers Samuel Montagu, leaving as it merged with what is now HSBC. Appointed a director of County Bank Investment Managers, he managed both group and client funds going on to advise the Friends Provident to set up its first discretionary fund management business. He was a broker/analyst during and after the ‘Big Bang’ subsequently directing the research side of investment bankers Quartz Capital Partners which specialised in raising capital for new enterprises in the US, Europe and the UK. In recent years he has written for and edited publications devoted to equity investment in both small and large companies.