Sam Goi is the Executive Chairman of Tee Yih Jia Group (TYJ), a global food and beverage group with operations in Singapore, Malaysia, USA, Europe and China; and Yangzhou Junhe Real Estate Group, a growing property development company in China.

He also has investments across a range of listed and private entities in numerous industries involved in restaurants, logistics management, water treatment environment management, renewable energy and healthcare management.

An active corporate citizen, Sam Goi serves as Chairman on numerous committees such as the International Trade Committee of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce & Industry and the Food Manufacturing Working Group, as well as the Ulu Pandan Citizens’ Consultative Committee, where he helped raise a record $3.55 million for the Ulu Pandan Community Centre Building Fund. In 1990, TYJ sponsored and commissioned the eight sculptures of the Chinese legendary heroes at Marina City Park’s Sculpture Garden. In 2003, TYJ donated $1 million to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy.

Sam Goi also sits on the board of many committees such as the Dunman High School Advisory Committee, Singapore Badminton Association, Futsing Association, Kong Hwa School Alumni, Singapore Table Tennis, Tan Kah Kee Foundation and the Nanyang Gwee Clan Association. He also serves in the New University Steering Committee at the Ministry of Education’s new publicly-funded university- Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) which will open in 2011. He is also the Honorary President of Singapore Badminton Association.

A member of the CDAC Board of Trustees, Business China and Singapore Manufacturers’ Federation, Mr Goi also serves as the Enterprise 50 Club’s Honorary Past President and is the Vice Chairman of IE Singapore’s “Network China” Steering Committee as well as its regional representative for Fuzhou City and Fujian Province. He is currently the Honorary Chairman for the International Federation of Fuqing Association and is a council member for the Singapore Zhejiang Economic & Trade Council. 

In recognition of his leadership, Mr Goi was awarded the Public Service Star (BBM) in 2004 and the “Leadership Award in Philanthropy” by Singapore Tatler magazine in 2005. Among other accolades, TYJ was awarded first place among Singapore’s best 50 companies in Year 2000’s Enterprise 50 Awards and was a winner of Ernst & Young’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” Award 2004 (Services and Business Products category).