Marathon Consulting is a locally owned and operated Information Technology services firm serving various
organizations in Hampton Roads, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and northeastern North Carolina. Marathon
provides a range of IT-related services, utilizing proven methodologies to achieve world-class results.
Marathon’s principals have over seven decades of collective IT experience and have served dozens of clients
in a variety of industries by bringing “Best Practices” to the selection, development, and deployment of client
solutions. These solutions have provided true bottom-line results and measurable benefits to our clients. A
sample of the industries served includes:
Marathon Consulting places great emphasis on assisting clients with high impact IT projects. Marathon prides itself on
helping the client identify, construct, and implement IT initiatives that result in a quick “payback” at an
attractive ROI. This allows the client to reap benefits early and develop a degree of confidence that their IT
investments can provide true, measurable benefits to their organization. Projects are often undertaken in a
phased approach so that functional components can be funded separately and implemented rapidly.
Marathon also takes pride in the development of our consulting staff. We take great care to hire “A+” players,
capable of working at any level of the client organization and being self-sufficient in their areas of technical
expertise. We provide the optimum mix of senior and mid-level talent to our engagements in order to provide the
client with the best overall value.
Why Marathon Consulting was Formed
The Marathon founders spent decades providing Information Technology Consulting services to commercial firms, local governments, and non-profit
organizations in Hampton Roads and the surrounding area. During that time, the IT community underwent numerous
changes brought about by the rise of the mini-computer, the PC, and emerging network technologies. The business
community also transformed. Several large company headquarters, with sizable IT departments, left the area,
either through buyouts, relocations, or company consolidations. The resulting IT community is now dominated by
“Mid-tier” firms: those with under $200 million in annual revenues and IT shops of 20 FTEs or less.
These organizations often have a difficult time purchasing services from the national IT firms: their projects are
simply too small. In our view, this leaves Hampton Roads and the surrounding communities underserved. Local
organizations often must choose between small, relatively inexperienced local firms who lack the breadth of
services to ensure continuity, or remote firms, whose lack of proximity makes project execution difficult, and
ongoing support expensive.
Marathon Consulting fills this gap very effectively by bringing broad, world-class experiences, a superior consulting staff,
flexibility, and partner relationships to meet client needs.
