Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-017502
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Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 20
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 2027 annual meeting of stockholders, our Class 1, 2 and 3 directors will all stand for election for a one-year term expiring at our 2028 annual meeting of stockholders.

If Proposal 1 does not pass, our COI’s provisions providing for a classified board of directors with staggered three-year terms will remain unchanged. Therefore, if Proposal 1 does not pass, only one class of directors will continue to be elected at each annual meeting of stockholders, with the other classes continuing for the remainder of their respective three-year terms. Any additional directorships resulting from an increase in the number of directors will be distributed among the three classes so that, as nearly as possible, each class will consist of one-third of our directors.

The current division of our Board into three classes with staggered three-year terms may delay or prevent a change of our management or a change in control of our Company.

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#### Board Leadership Structure
Our Corporate Governance Guidelines provide that our Board will be free to choose its chairperson in any way that it considers in the best interests of our Company at any giving point in time, and our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee charter provides that the committee will periodically consider the leadership structure of our Board and make such recommendations to our Board with respect thereto as appropriate. Our Board currently believes that it should maintain flexibility in determining the Board leadership structure that is appropriate for the Company at a given time.

Currently, our leadership structure separates the roles of Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, with Mr. A. Rubenstein serving as our Chief Executive Officer and Mr. Peterson serving as our Chairman of the Board. Our Board believes that separating these roles provides the appropriate balance between strategy development, flow of information between management and the Boards, and oversight of management. We believe this provides guidance for our Board, while also positioning our Chief Executive Officer as the leader of the Company in the eyes of our customers, employees, and other stakeholders. As Chairman, Mr. Peterson, among other responsibilities, presides over regularly scheduled meetings of the Board, serves as a liaison between the directors, and performs such additional duties as our Board may otherwise determine and delegate. Our Board recognizes the time, effort, and energy that Mr. A. Rubenstein is required to devote to his position as our Chief Executive Officer in the current business environment, as well as the commitment required for a person to serve as our Chairman, particularly as the Board’s oversight responsibilities continue to grow.