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18 Sep 2009
In a move that will come as a surprise to many, serial entrepreneur and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen has been appointed to HP's board of directors.
Andreessen, who is also chairman of social network platform provider Ning, will be HP's eleventh director, and is believed to have been brought on board to help HP boost its software presence.
More recently he founded Andreessen Horowitz, a tech venture capital firm, and some may see the move to a big corporate like HP as a strange one for the internet maverick. At Netscape, Andreessen co-authored Mosaic, the first widely used web browser which ultimately went the way of the dodo after a much publicised battle with Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
"Marc Andreessen is a software pioneer whose leadership has helped shape the internet," said HP chairman and chief executive, Mark Hurd. "Marc's entrepreneurial background and industry expertise will be a welcome addition to the HP board of directors."
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