Senior Experience.
Direct Execution.
Heights Marathon Consulting is an operational finance, risk management, project and commercial finance, and applied AI consulting practice based in Houston.
An Evolving Practice
The firm represents the evolution of more than 20 years of work across global finance, financial markets, international transactions, operating finance, infrastructure and technology.
That history spans international CFO and M&A work, financial markets and risk management, renewable-energy investment and infrastructure, operational finance and financial systems.
A Different Consulting Model
Complex projects often move through multiple specialists—finance advisers, risk consultants, accountants, technology teams and implementation staff.
Every handoff creates another opportunity for context to disappear.
Heights Marathon is built differently.
Experienced professionals stay directly involved from problem definition through execution. We connect financial judgment with the processes, data, controls and technology required to make it work.
Where specialized legal, accounting or tax opinions are required, we work alongside those advisers rather than replace them.
Comprehensive capability. Lean delivery. Direct accountability.
Li Xu, CPA (Inactive)
Li Xu is a finance, markets and risk executive with more than 20 years of experience spanning global financial markets, international finance, energy and infrastructure, operational finance and technology.
Her experience includes managing approximately $14 billion of global FX exposure, finance leadership supporting approximately $1.2 billion of operations, and investment and risk leadership across more than 7 GW of renewable-energy assets.
Her work has crossed markets, transactions, operations and systems, with an increasing focus on the intersection of finance, data, automation and AI.
Li remains actively engaged with Houston’s finance and technology communities, including CFA Society Houston and the broader AI and technology ecosystem. Her current technology engagement includes participation in the AWS startup ecosystem and the AMD AI Developer Program, alongside continuing work in Python, data automation and AI-enabled financial workflows.
Deep experience. Current thinking. Modern execution.
Experience is valuable only when it stays relevant.
Heights Marathon continuously evolves with financial markets, technology and the way organizations operate. We use open- and closed-source models, cloud and local computing, conventional software, automation and AI as appropriate to the work—not as separate specialties, but as part of how we solve problems.
Our experience provides the judgment. Continuous learning keeps the methods current.
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2500 Yale St, Suite B #12
Houston, TX 77008
United States