AcelRx Pharma Names Timothy Morris CFO - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - AcelRx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ACRX), a specialty pharmaceutical company, Tuesday announced the appointment of Timothy Morris as chief financial officer.

Morris brings 30 years of professional finance and accounting experience to AcelRx, 18 of which were spent in the role of chief financial officer. He was most recently the finance chief of VIVUS, Inc. (VVUS), a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company.

Morris will be responsible for managing the company's finance operations, its information systems and human resource and investor relations functions. Jim Welch, who had served as CFO since October 2010, departed the company to pursue other business opportunities.