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
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 Dee Robinson(2)              |     |  64 |     | Director                                        |     |           2020 |
| Kenneth B. Rotman            |     |  58 |     | Director                                        |     |           2019 |
| David W. Ruttenberg(2)(3)    |     |  83 |     | Director                                        |     |           2010 |

(1) Member of the compensation committee

(2) Member of the nominating and corporate governance committee

(3) Member of the audit committee

(4) Mr. Peterson and Ms. Philips joined the board of Pace in 2017 and joined the board of Accel in connection with the Business Combination in 2019

(5) Ms. Godsoe is currently a Class 3 director and is not standing for re-election at the Annual Meeting.

Andrew Rubenstein has served as Accel’s Chief Executive Officer, Chairman (prior to the Business Combination) and a director since January 2010. In 2009, Mr. A. Rubenstein founded Accel and served as founding chairman of the board of directors of Legacy Accel (the “ Legacy Accel Board ”). Prior to serving as Accel’s founding chairman, Mr. A. Rubenstein was a co-owner and an executive of Seven, LLC and was an owner and operator of the largest liquor store chain in central Illinois by revenue, Super Liquors, Inc. Mr. A. Rubenstein is a graduate of Brandeis University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, in Economics and Master of Arts degree in International Finance and Economics. We believe that Mr. A. Rubenstein’s prior experience as Accel’s founder and CEO makes him well qualified to serve as a member of our Board.

Karl Peterson has served as Accel’s Chairman since 2019. He currently serves as head of Peterson Capital Partners, a family office with numerous public and private investments. In 2022, he retired as a Senior Partner of TPG Global, LLC (“ TPG ”) and Managing Partner of TPG Pace Group, where he previously headed the firm’s effort to sponsor special purpose acquisition companies and other permanent capital solutions for companies. Mr. Peterson served as a director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pace from February of 2017 through the consummation of the Business Combination. Previously, he served as a director, President and Chief Executive Officer of Pace Holdings Corp. from its inception in 2015 through