Darryl Goss is currently consulting with Investment firms to research, acquire, and improve the performance of companies in the healthcare and technology spaces. Prior to his current role, Darryl served as Chief Executive Officer at Inform Diagnostics (a leading provider of anatomic pathology laboratory services), President of SAFC Hitech (the high-technology custom manufacturing services business unit of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation), and Vice President and General Manager of Europe and Asia Pacific for SAFC's Life Science Services business (formerly BioReliance, Inc.).

He began his career at IBM in Information Technology and later moved into senior roles in IT, Operations, and Management in the healthcare laboratory industry with SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories, Covance, Esoterix, and LabCorp. Darryl earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Davis, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago and completed post-graduate training in Advanced International Management at Oxford University in Oxford, England. While attending UC Davis, Darryl played on the football team and met his wife Lois who is also a UC Davis graduate. He is a former Trustee of the UC Davis Foundation, former chair of the College of Letters and Science Dean’s Advisory Council and is a current member of the UC Davis Athletics Board. 

Darryl and Lois have established several Endowments to benefit programs in African American/African Studies Department, as well as first Gen and low-income students at UC Davis. In 2021, they established The Austin and Arutha Goss Presidential Chair in African American and African Studies, in honor of Darryl’s parents whom he and Lois credit with teaching them the value of education and lifelong learning.

Darryl and Lois received the CAAA Aggie Service Award in 2019, and most recently were the recipients of the 2024 UC Davis Medal, the highest honor the university presents to individuals in recognition of extraordinary contributions that embody the campus’s Vision of Excellence.