Marc Andreessen is now on Facebook board

Social networking service Facebook has announced that Marc Andreessen has now joined their board of members.

He was one of the co-founders of Netscape Communications. He also co-founded Ning.

Andreessen said in a statement that Facebook is currently one of the most innovative companies on the Web and he is happy to become a part of it.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated: “Marc is an industry leader, and we’re fortunate to have him join our board. He has experience that is relevant to Facebook in so many ways: scaling companies that are experiencing extraordinary growth, creating successful technology platforms, and building strong engineering organizations. I know Marc will be a great mentor to me and our leadership team.”