Mr. Goh was appointed the Group Executive Chairman on 23 May 2006. Prior to that, he was the Non-Executive Chairman since 2002.

Mr. Goh has been working on mathematical and digital sciences since 1977. After graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering majoring in Electronics Engineering on a Monbusho scholarship at the University of Tokyo, he began his career in IBM Malaysia where he held several senior positions over a nine-year tenure, the last being Marketing Manager for Banking and Finance.

In 1989, he founded the Silverlake Group which was based on his foresight on the future of economic and digital demands. Within the first ten years, Silverlake established itself as a leading provider of state-of-the-art universal banking solutions. Today, the Group is a multibillion-dollar organisation with key offices around the globe and some of its member companies listed on various stock exchanges.

The Group’s original tagline, ‘Symmetry at Work’, was recently revised to ‘Symmetry at Work Powering Hundreds of Deep Tech and New Tech Companies’, to reflect not only the Supply Side of the economy, but also the Demand Side, such as in Fintech, Digital Finance, Cloud Computing, Digital Franchising and other various high-tech areas. The Silverlake group underwent a major restructuring exercise in 2021 and Mr. Goh founded Zezz FundQ Pte Ltd, a company incorporated in Singapore that consolidates all of his interests in the group, as well as to have better focus on Symmetry and Digital Economy.

The Silverlake Group and associate companies have a staff force of more than 4,800 worldwide, supporting over 400 large customers who are located in over 70 countries across all continents. The Group has earned many industry recognitions since its inception including the IBM Partner Excellence Award (2012), IBM ASEAN Golden Circle Award (2012), Forbes’ Best Under A Billion – Best of the Best (2013), The Asian Banker Vendor Satisfaction Survey Gold Award (2014), Forbes’ Best Under A Billion (2015).

Personally, Mr. Goh has twice won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award Malaysia, recognising entrepreneurial excellence, first in 2005 under the Technology Entrepreneur category; and the second in 2014 in the Master Technology Entrepreneur category. The World Chinese Economic Summit in 2015 presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Information Technology to Mr. Goh. In 2017 he was conferred the ASEAN Legacy Award in the ASEAN Business Awards, which recognises ASEAN entrepreneurs that have created positive impact and inspiration within ASEAN communities. In 2019 at the ASEAN Community Leadership and Partnership Forum 2019, Mr. Goh was the sole recipient of the ASEAN Entrepreneur of the Year Award bestowed to distinguished business personalities who have contributed significantly to ASEAN. Most recent in 2022, the Emperor of Japan conferred the prestigious Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette on Mr. Goh. In 2015 article about Silverlake, Forbes referred to Mr. Goh as the first tech-billionaire in Malaysia.Aside from his business and professional achievements, Mr. Goh is very much involved in academics – especially in Science and Mathematics. He is particularly interested in the research of Science of Intelligence and its application to Human Actions and Economy, and where possible enjoys giving talks in various schools of higher learning. He specialises in the application of Category Theory, leading to the formulation of his Sigma Scheme, a new Time-Space view verses physics’ Space-Time view, and with that clarity, developed something known as Sigma Excellence Insights, and with that insight, he built a high-tech enterprise group based on ‘Symmetry at Work Powering Hundreds of Deep Tech and New Tech’.

Mr. Goh is a member of the ASEAN Business Advisory Council (ASEAN-BAC) Malaysia Circle (ABMC), an Executive Committee of Malaysia-Japan Economic Association (MAJECA), Fellow of the Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM), an Industry Advisor of the Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering and Science in Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, a Fellow of the ASEAN Academy of Engineering and Technology (AAET), a Member of the ASM Science and Technology and Industry Linkage Committee, an Adviser of the ACCCIM Science, Technology and Innovations Committee, a Member of the Board of Governors of First City University College, a member of the Azman Hashim Advisory Council (AAC) of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia; an Advisor for Japan Graduates Association of Malaysia (JAGAM), and a member of the International Advisory Council of the Association of Malaysian Economics Undergraduate.