The company has a highly experienced management team, and Board of Directors. There are two executive directors:

• Hugh Carr-Archer, Chief Executive Officer is the former Executive Chairman of SIMS Ltd – a highly successful software house in the education sector, that grew from start up to about 300 employees whilst Hugh was there. Very profitable from its early days, SIMS was the subject of a successful trade sale to Capita Group plc.
  
  Since Aurora was established, Hugh has overseen the formation and growth of the company. He is responsible for the general running of the company, whilst assisting with major sales, financial and personnel activities.
  
  
• Patrick Usher, Technical Director was formerly an Associate Director at SIMS Ltd (see above), where he led the largest development team in the company.
  
  At Aurora, Patrick has continued to lead a superb development team, whilst liaising with customers to interpret their needs and producing software that is extremely user friendly, yet rich in functionality.
  

There are also two non-executive directors:

• Roger Brown, Non - Executive Director, is a Director of Noble Grossart Limited and Noble Grossart Investments Limited. He is a qualified accountant with wide ranging experience spanning a number of industries . As well as having investment, banking and legal experience, Roger brings substantial wealth of relevant and practical business experience. 
  
  
• David Houghton, Non - Executive Director, is one of Aurora's major and longest serving shareholders, who joined the Board towards the end of 2004, to assist in the running of the business. David brings a wealth of practical, successful experience in business, which commenced forty years ago when he started his own business.

Aurora has in total around two dozen shareholders, with directors owning about half of the shares.

The company has already grown quite significantly since it was established, and has in place a highly motivated and dedicated workforce, who share the company ethos of putting customers’ needs first and always delivering on promises. The company directors believe that our hundreds of installed operational FaceRec systems exceed sales of FaceRec for all other UK companies combined.

Aurora operates out of purpose built premises near Northampton.