Retail | Wholesale | Food | Beverage 2025: MICHAEL DAVIS

In January 2024, Davis assumed the role of CEO at Cort Business Services, a Berkshire Hathaway-owned company that includes Cort Furniture Rental, Cort Trade Show and Events, and other businesses. Cort has more than 100 offices, rental showrooms and retail furniture outlets nationally and provides furniture rentals in more than 80 countries.

A member of the Move for Hunger board, Davis has been with Cort since 1997, when he started as a distribution manager at Cort Furniture Rental. He then worked in a number of roles, including executive director and group vice president of Cort Trade Show & Event Furnishings, and group vice president of ABC Special Event Rentals & AA Party Rentals by Cort. He previously was the company’s executive vice president, chief operating officer and president. Before his tenure at Cort, he worked at Viking Freight, ABF Freight and 3 Day Blinds.

On Dec. 31, 2024, Dwellworks acquired Cort’s Destination Services business and additionally received access to Cort’s rental property search aggregator and network of licensed real estate agents.

In February, Cort won the Corporate Housing Providers Association’s Tower of Excellence Award for Associate Partner of the Year.

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