ADS LLC - Corporate Bios
ADS has assembled an outstanding team of skilled, experienced professionals to lead our organization. Each team member is ideally suited to his/her discipline, and provides the company with a depth of expertise required to meet the demands of innovation, execution and profitability necessary for sustaining long-term product solutions that bring high value to clients.

John Trofatter, General Manager, Accusonic Technologies. Having joined Accusonic in 2004, John previously spent 13 years with Controlotron Corporation in a variety of roles including Vice President of Sales and Division Manager. John has over 25 years of experience in the sales, marketing and application of various flow measurement technologies in the power, water and wastewater industries. John is an active member of the Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the American Water Works Association (AWWA). He currently holds a position on AWWA’s Rate Type Flowmeter Committee and is the WEF's Operations Challenge Collection Systems Event Coordinator. John is a past Section President and Delegate for the Instrumentation Systems & Automation Society (ISA) and a former lecturer in the Instrument Testing Association's (ITA) Flowmeter Workshop Series.
Karl Boone, President & CEO. Since joining ADS in 1985, Karl has held a range of operational and general management positions, demonstrating a strong commitment to client services excellence and tangible results for the company. Prior to his appointment as President, Karl held the position of Vice President of Operations, directing the finances, staff and project management duties for 20 satellite offices in the U.S. and Australia. During his career at ADS, Karl has been responsible for world's largest municipal wastewater flow assessment projects in cities ranging from Sydney, Australia to Houston, Texas to New York City, providing him with an invaluable hands-on perspective into the issues and challenges facing municipalities today. He also launched ADS' Six Sigma data quality assurance program and initiated the industry's first and only National Data Center. Karl is a member of the Water Environment Federation, serves on a subcommittee for the Water Environment Research Foundation and is a committee member for BAMI, the Atlanta-based Buried Asset Management Institute.
Joseph Goustin, Chief Financial Officer. Joe has over seventeen years of domestic and international financial management experience in electronics, aerospace and manufacturing industries. Prior to joining ADS, he served as Corporate Controller for Z/I Imaging Corporation and as Financial Operations Manager for AVEX Electronics. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Cindy O'Gorman, Director of Marketing. Cindy has over seventeen years professional experience in marketing, public relations and market research for high technology, telecommunications, Internet and industrial manufacturing companies. Cindy is responsible for the full scope of marketing activities at ADS. Cindy serves on the Manufacturers & Representatives Committee of the Water Environment Federation. Prior to joining ADS she served as Marketing Manager for ADTRAN. Cindy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA.