He is an audit partner with Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, certified public accountants and consultants located in Raleigh. Davenport concentrates in auditing and on financial and business consulting for not-for-profit entities and is director of the firm’s Not-For-Profit Industry Group. A North Carolina native, he began his career in the Atlanta office of Arthur Anderson & Company. In 1974, he returned to North Carolina and joined Nathan T. Garrett, CPA. Davenport was one of the initial incorporators of Garrett and Davenport, P.C., CPAs, the largest and oldest minority CPA firm in North Carolina prior to merging into Cherry, Bekaert and Holland.