Marc Andreessen Officially Joins Facebook Board of Directors

Although he’s been rumored to have a seat on Facebook’s board for a long time, Facebook announced today that Silicon Valley luminary and current Ning Chairman Marc Andreessen has officially taken the fourth seat on Facebook’s board.

A long-time advisor to the company and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Andreessen is known for writing the early Mosaic web browser, co-founding Netscape, and staying on as AOL’s CTO after it acquired the company. Andreessen later founded web infrastructure company Loudcloud/Opsware, which was acquired by HP, and then co-founded Ning.

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