Meet the Local Splash Technology Team

DAVID J RODECKER
Founder and CTO

DAVID has been involved with high-technology companies for over a decade. David led technology development at Interchange Corporation, launching local.com which became the fastest growing local search destination hitting 4.4MM unique visitors in 3 months. Over 6 years, David held key senior positions at Interchange which IPO’d in 2004, raising $22MM. As a founding partner at Mail2World, he created an e-mail service, establishing its use to 6.5MM hosted mailboxes in 3 with clients ICQ, iVillage, EsMas and NetIdentity. David has appeared on CNBC and TechTV evangelizing Web-hosted software services. At PIMCO, the world’s largest manager of fixed income portfolios, David led the implementation of a high-capacity electronic exchange, which conducted over $1.2 trillion dollars in trades during its first year. David has also consulted as a technical analyst to Fortune 500 companies. David graduated with an Engineering degree from the University of Southern California as a Phi Kappa Phi scholar and holds an MS degree in Biomathematics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

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EADE HOPKINSON II
I.T. Manager
Started: February, 2010

EADE is a great man of mystery who enjoys making people laugh. He has an MA from Cal State Long Beach and hopes to progress far in his career and life. His parents have made a great impact on his life and made him the man he is today.

Favorite quote: “In the words of the all-knowing tiger, never trust squirrels.”

GINNI SETHI
Developer
Started: Jan 2008

GINNI enjoys spending time with her family; watching The Daily Show; going to Book Stores with her daughter. She is also determined to learn to swim some day!

Favorite quote: “Failing to plan is planning to fail!”

BENJAMIN VAN DRUNEN
Developer
Started: November, 2009

BEN likes to play sports, video games, and waste time on technology blogs and websites…oh and work sometimes.

Favorite quote: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” -Mark Twain

HITESH CHOUDHARY
Developer
Started: April 2011

PRIYA GANDHI
Developer

CHUCK JANCO
Senior Web Developer
Started: March, 2004

CHUCK enjoys watching his 2 daughters grow, teaching them new things and also learning a lot from them. He likes to travel, camp, hike, watch the History Channel and play with fun technologies like GIS. He is an Army veteran, Cal Poly Pomona graduate and has 12 years of experience as a Web Developer.

Favorite quote: “The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.” – Sydney J. Harris

AJAY RAHATEKAR
Software Developer