SEC Form 3

FORM 3

UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20549 INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940

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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* Aaro Thomas A. (Last) (First) (Middle) C/O HURCO COMPANIES, INC. ONE TECHNOLOGY WAY (Street) INDIANAPOLIS IN 46268 (City) (State) (Zip)	2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year) 03/12/2015	3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol HURCO COMPANIES INC [ HURC ]
		4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer (Check all applicable) X Director 10% Owner Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)	5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
			6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line) X Form filed by One Reporting Person Form filed by More than One Reporting Person

Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4)	2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4)	3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)

Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned (e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4)	2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)		3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4)		4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security	5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5)	6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
	Date Exercisable	Expiration Date	Title	Amount or Number of Shares

Explanation of Responses:

Remarks:

Exhibit List: Exhibit 24 - Power of Attorney

No securities are beneficially owned.

	/s/ Sonja K. McClelland, Attorney-in-fact for Thomas A. Aaro	03/13/2015
	** Signature of Reporting Person	Date
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Exhibit 24

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

For Executing Forms 3, 4, 5, and 144

 

The undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints each of Michael Doar and Sonja McClelland, signing singly, as his or her true and lawful attorney-in-fact, for such period of time that the undersigned is required to file reports pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), or Rule 144 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), due to his affiliation with Hurco Companies, Inc. unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, to:

 

1)

execute for and on behalf of the undersigned Forms 3, 4, 5, and 144 and any amendments to previously filed forms in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act or Rule 144 of the Securities Act and the rules thereunder;

 

2)

do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete the execution of any such Forms 3, 4, 5, and 144 and the timely filing of such form with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any other authority as required by law; and

 

3)

take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of or legally required by the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in his discretion.

 

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary and proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or his substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act or Rule 144 of the Securities Act.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed as of this 22 day of February, 2015.

 

	/s/ Thomas A. Aaro
	Thomas A. Aaro