Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018604
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Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
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 telephone, or by mail, in accordance with the instructions included in the proxy materials.

On behalf of the board of directors, we would like to thank you for your continued interest and investment in Accel Entertainment, Inc.

Sincerely,

/s/ Andrew Rubenstein

Andrew Rubenstein

President and Chief Executive Officer

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#### ACCEL ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

#### NOTICE OF 2025 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS
| Time and Date:     
 Place:             |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Friday, June 6, 2025, at 1:00pm, Central Time. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Virtual only:http://www.virtualshareholdermeeting.com/ACEL2025 |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                |
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| Items of Business: |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          -1 |     | To approve an amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (our “COI”) to declassify our Board of Directors (our “Board” and such proposal, “Proposal 1”);                                                                               |
|                    |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       -2)(a |     | If Proposal 1 is approved, to elect to our Board the following nominees for terms expiring at our 2026 Annual Meeting of Stockholders: Kathleen Philips and Kenneth B. Rotman (“Proposal 2a”);                                                                 |
|                    |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       -2)(b |     | If Proposal is 1 not approved, to elect to our Board the following nominees for terms expiring at our 2028 Annual Meeting of Stockholders: Kathleen Philips and Kenneth B. Rotman (“Proposal 2b”);                                                             |
|                    |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          -3 |     | To approve an amendment to our COI to provide exculpation to our officers (“Proposal 3”);                                                                                                                                                                      |
|                    |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          -4 |     | To approve the amendment and restatement of our Amended and Restated Long Term Incentive Plan (the “Second A&R LTIP” and such proposal, “Proposal 4”);                                                                                                         |
|                    |     |                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          -5 |     | To approve, on a non-binding advisory basis, the compensation of our