Sam Goi

Sam Goi is executive chairman of property developer GSH Corporation and food manufacturing firm Tee Yih Jia, the world’s top manufacturer of popiah (spring-roll) skins. It is fitting, then, that Goi is widely known as Singapore’s “popiah king”, having acquired the business in 1977 and grown it into a firm that exports a wide range of frozen convenience foods to Asia-Pacific, the US, Europe, South Africa and the Middle East.

Goi is also a controlling shareholder in GSH Corporation, with a 59.82 per cent stake. The firm manages two balmy Malaysian resorts which include two five-star hotels and a 104-berth marina. GSH is developing a number of other properties in China and Malaysia, including Coral Bay, a luxury condominium project in Sabah.

Estimated to be worth approximately US$2 billion (S$2.6 billion), Goi has stakes in half a dozen listed companies, including Serial System, JB Foods, Envictus International. He is a director at GSH, JB Foods, as well as in Tat Seng Packaging Group and Tung Lok Restaurants.