Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen is a Danish computer scientist, technology executive, and the co-founder of Google Maps.He was the director of engineering for Facebook in London. In early 2003, Lars and his brother Jens co-founded a mapping-related startup, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October 2004. Rasmussen became the head of the Google Maps team and worked at Google until joining Facebook in late 2010.