Today, Toro steps out of stealth mode to introduce its founding team, including Tim Arnold and Barry Shevlin — two industry veterans with deep roots in staffing technology and a history of transforming complex operational challenges into efficient, automated solutions.

Tim Arnold, best known in staffing circles as the founder of Fyre (acquired by Bullhorn and rebranded as VMS Sync), brings a fresh perspective gained from his extensive experience outside staffing. In recent years, he’s led AI and automation initiatives across industries like healthcare payment services and customer support, applying data-driven insights to complex service operations. His unique background has allowed him to see the current staffing challenges—particularly the need for increased team productivity and efficiency—through a new lens, enabling Toro’s innovative approach to solving these problems.

Barry Shevlin has been a key figure in developing the technology behind some of the staffing industry’s most widely used automation tools. Over his two years at Fyre and seven years at Bullhorn, he has been an integral part of engineering the systems powering the real-time integrations to Vendor Management Systems (VMS), job boards, and other business critical tools. With a wealth of experience integrating with those tools to over a dozen Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), Barry’s expertise has shaped Toro’s architecture, enabling seamless, real-time data cleaning, syncing and analysis that directly addresses the challenges staffing firms face today.

"The staffing industry has always been hungry for insights and more actionable KPIs," says Arnold. "The advancement of AI in the past 12 months has finally made analyzing the depth of unstructured day-to-day behaviors practical at the speed and scale of staffing. Toro is at the forefront of identifying and surfacing these improvement opportunities for all."

"The advancement of AI in the past 12 months has finally made analyzing the depth of unstructured day-to-day behaviors practical at the speed and scale of staffing."

Toro’s Staffing Intelligence Platform harnesses these insights, transforming ATS data into trends, actionable insights, and proactive guidance for recruiters and leaders. Already adopted by top firms like Prolink, Atlas MedStaff, and CareStaff Partners, Toro’s platform is designed to empower staffing teams to move from reactive to proactive, with intelligent trend recognition that highlights coaching opportunities and operational efficiencies before they impact performance.

CEO Mark Hummel captures the team’s vision: "We’ve been quietly building what we wish we’d had in our previous roles. Our team has spent years building, implementing, and consulting on staffing technology, experiencing firsthand what works, what doesn’t, and what’s been missing. With Toro, we’ve built the platform that the market has been asking for since the dawn of the digital transformation movement"

"We’ve built the platform that the market has been asking for since the dawn of the digital transformation movement."

Together, Arnold, Shevlin, and Hummel have crafted Toro with insights rooted in real-world experience, addressing the urgent need for data-driven efficiency and proactive decision-making in staffing. Toro’s Staffing Intelligence platform equips firms to not only identify trends but to act on them in time to make a difference—helping firms achieve sustainable, intelligence-driven growth in an evolving industry.