Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: PRE 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-017502
Chunk: 63

Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: PRE 14A
Chunk 63
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 Paid to our PEO, the average of Compensation Actually Paid to our Non-PEO NEOs, and our net income during the five most recently completed fiscal years.

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Relationship Between PEO and Non-PEO NEO Compensation Actually Paid and Adjusted EBITDA

The following chart sets forth the relationship between Compensation Actually Paid to our PEO, the average of Compensation Actually Paid to our Non-PEO NEOs, and our Adjusted EBITDA during the five most recently completed fiscal years.

Most Important Financial Performance Measures

Adjusted EBITDAand revenuesare the financial performance measure that the Company considers to have been the most important in linking Compensation Actually Paid to our PEO and Non-PEO NEOs for 2024 to Company performance.

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PROPOSAL 3: ADOPTION OF AN AMENDMENT TO OUR CURRENT AMENDED AND RESTATED CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION IN ORDER TO PERMIT THE EXCULPATION OF OFFICERS FROM PERSONAL LIABILITY FOR CERTAIN BREACHES OF THE DUTY OF CARE</div>

Section 102(b)(7) of the Delaware General Corporation Law was amended effective August 1, 2022 to permit a Delaware corporation’s certificate of incorporation to include a provision that limits or eliminates (i.e., exculpates) the monetary liability of certain officers for breaches of the fiduciary duty of care as officers in certain actions. This exculpation would not protect such officers from liability for breach of the duty of loyalty, acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law, or any transaction in which the officer derived an improper personal benefit. Nor would this exculpation shield such officers from liability for claims brought by or in the right of the corporation, such as derivative claims. In addition, only certain officers may be exculpated from liability: (i) a corporation’s president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer, chief financial officer, chief legal officer, controller, treasurer or chief accounting officer; (ii) an individual identified in public filings as one of the most highly compensated officers of the corporation; and (iii) an individual who, by written agreement with the corporation, has consented to be identified as an officer for purposes of Delaware’s long-arm jurisdiction statute. The proposed amendment to our COI would eliminate the liability of these statutorily defined officers as described above (the “ Officer