13 Facts About Samuel Yin

Samuel Yen-Liang Yin is a Taiwanese billionaire businessman and philanthropist.

Samuel Yin is best known for the establishment of the Tang Prize, and as chairman of the Ruentex Financial Group.

Samuel Yin is the president of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University.

Samuel Yin earned a master's degree in business at the National Taiwan University in 1982, and a PhD in business at National Chengchi University in 1986.

In 2004, Yin was named a fellow of the Chinese Institute of Civil and Hydraulic Engineering.

In 2010, Yin received the Henry L Michel Award for Industry Advancement of Research by the American Society of Civil Engineers for his contribution in the area of construction technology research.

Samuel Yin was the first person without an academic background in engineering to receive the award.

Samuel Yin is the head of the Ruentex Financial Group which invests in Taiwan and China.

In 2014, Samuel Yin was named as one of the key investors in Gogoro, an electric scooter startup in Taiwan.

Samuel Yin established the Tang Prize in December 2012, funded by US$100 million of his own capital.

In 2016, Samuel Yin donated US$12.8 million to the Scripps Research Institute to "contribute to the building of new state-of-the-art laboratories".

Samuel Yin is married to Wang Chi-Fan and has one son and one daughter.

Samuel Yin is an experienced offshore sailor and commissioned the construction of two yachts, Sea Eagle and Sea Eagle II, the latter being the world's largest aluminium sailing yacht.