Alumna Eileen Burbidge featured

Informilo (June 20) -- Alumna Eileen Burbidge, the doyenne of the London tech scene, advisor to the Prime Minister, Fintech Envoy, ex-advisor to the London Mayor and chair of Tech City UK, studied computer science at Illinois, home of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) — a place that holds a special affection in the heart of any geek as the birthplace of the world’s first browser — originally called Mosaic, before it transformed into Netscape. “I was in the lab that [Marc] Andreessen was in. He was a year ahead of me,” she says. Andreessen went on to found Netscape and is now one of the most respected VCs in the world.