Darren Stanley
Chair
Rachel Wiseman
Director
Fred Melki
Director
Aaron Hornlimann
Director
Steve Walsh
Director
Trent Donnelly
Director
Robert Routley
Director
Who we are
We’re a growing team passionate about making everyday journeys effortless. At Elenium, we build smart, intuitive technology that removes friction from travel and empowers people to move freely.
“A world without friction”
Mission
Seamless journeys powered by intelligent, effortless automation.
Our Team
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Aaron Hornlimann
Chief Executive Officer
Fred Melki
Chief Operating Officer
Nick Osborne-Hunt
Chief Technology Officer
Rob Bowring
Chief Commercial Officer
Ralf Weber
Head of Supply Chain and Sustainability
History
Elenium was founded in 2015 by Aaron Hornlimann, Fred Melki, and Heinz Corona, sparked by a simple question: why did airports still feel stuck in the past? While smartphones, digital assistants, and autonomous vehicles were becoming everyday technology, the airport experience remained clunky, congested, and outdated. It was time for change.
Determined to bring airports into the modern era, Elenium set out to reimagine passenger processing—making it faster, smarter, and more intuitive. The result was VYGR (short for Voyager), a powerful suite of self-service technologies designed to transform every step of the journey. Built on computer vision, AI, modern UX, and a resilient cloud backbone, VYGR makes travel seamless for passengers, and more efficient for airports and airlines alike.
In 2020, as COVID-19 grounded global aviation, Elenium didn’t pause, we pivoted. We adapted our airport-grade technology to launch HealthGate, the first automated, touchless fever detection device approved by both the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration and the European Medicines Agency. Within six months, we also achieved ISO 13485 certification, enabling us to design and manufacture software and hardware for Class IIa medical devices, demonstrating not just technical excellence, but resilience and adaptability.
While airports were quiet, we doubled down on innovation—accelerating R&D in computer vision and AI to create the world’s highest-performing bag drop, achieving over 97% first-time read rates and sub-15 second processing speeds.
We also invested in our support and services capability. Partnering with Unisys to provide global 24 by 7, remote and onsite support coverage.
When air travel surged back in 2022, we refocused on our core mission: seamless, intelligent self-service. We brought with us fresh insights from health tech and broader markets, reinforcing our belief that self-service must be truly interoperable and common use by design. We believe this is essential, otherwise, our customers won’t receive true value and dividend of self-service deployed at airport.
Celebrating our 10th year, today we are in over 35 airports, serving more than 45 airlines and 250 million passengers annually across Australasia, Asia, Central Asia, Middle East, Europe, and the UK.
Values
Innovation
We are always looking how to do things better, our technology should speaks for itself. By definition research and development must face failure. That’s ok, learn and move on quickly.
Continuous Improvement
We must always make our technology, products and services better. Improving on design, ease of use, function, reliability and serviceability.
Interoperability & Common Use
We believe that ensuring interoperability between self service competitors enables true common use for airports and airlines. Delivering true value to the civil aviation industry.
Digital Privacy
Privacy is a top priority. We are transparent. We never collect unnecessary personal data.
Diversity
Our team should try and reflect the global community we serve.
Equality
We believe everyone is equal, the only thing that matters to us is your attitude, passion and skill.
Sustainability
We make conscious decision as we strive for a more efficient and sustainable future.
Value
We must provide value to everyone we serve, our customers, team and investors. In that order.
To achieve a world without friction, we must constantly pursue innovation.
Everyday we strive to create better experiences in the everyday. This constant pursuit of innovation is in our very core, helping us turn a concept into reality, and bring it to market quickly.
Each team member shares a passion for technology, as we strive to innovate the latest and greatest digital solutions for use in the real world.
Our internal R&D capabilities expand across robotics and mechanical engineering to physics and data science. Our products are enriched with machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to adapt to the new user. By implementing quality processes, we maintain quality, reliability, interoperability and consistency in our technology.
