SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2006--Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL) today announced the appointment of Rick Russo as the Company’s Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective as of October 2, 2006. Mr. Russo has nearly 30 years of finance and accounting leadership experience and has held positions of increasing scope with a number of both public and private high technology companies. Most recently, from 2000 through 2006, Mr. Russo served as the Chief Financial Officer of Captiva Software Corporation (“Captiva”), a leading global provider of automatic data capture software and enterprise input management solutions. Captiva was a publicly held company prior to its acquisition by EMC Corporation for approximately $275 million in December 2005.
