Company: ACEL
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001628280-25-018604
Chunk: 12

Company: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 12
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 14A or 14C or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. The information contained in the “ Compensation Committee Report ” and “ Report of the Audit Committee ” shall not be deemed “filed” with the SEC or subject to Regulations 14A or 14C or to the liabilities of Section 18 of the Exchange Act.

#### Other Information
As used in this proxy statement, unless the context otherwise requires:

• “ Business Combination ” refers to the business combination transaction pursuant to which, on November 20, 2019, Pace combined with Legacy Accel, re-domesticated as a Delaware corporation and changed its name to “Accel Entertainment, Inc.”;

• “ Legacy Accel ” refers to Accel Entertainment, Inc., an Illinois corporation;

• “ Pace ” refers TPG Pace Holdings Corp., a Cayman Islands exempted company, prior to the closing of the Business Combination; and

• “ we ,” “ us ,” “ our ,” “ Accel ,” and the “ Company ” refer to Legacy Accel prior to the closing of the Business Combination and to Accel Entertainment, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and, where appropriate, its subsidiaries following the closing of the Business Combination.

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### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

#### Our Board
Our business and affairs are overseen by our Board, which currently consists of nine members. Following the Annual Meeting, our Board will consist of eight members.Set forth below is biographical information for each of our current directors.

| Name                         |     | Age |     | Titles                                          |     | Director Since |
| Andrew Rubenstein            |     |  56 |     | Chief Executive Officer, President and Director |     |           2010 |
| Karl Peterson(1)(2)(4)       |     |  54 |     | Chairman and Director                           |     |           2017 |
| Gordon Rubenstein            |     |  53 |     | Vice Chairman and Director                      |     |           2010 |
| Eden Godsoe(1)(3)(5)         |     |  55 |     | Director                                        |     |           2019 |
| Cheryl Kondra                |     |  51 |     | Director                                        |     |           2025 |
| Kathleen Philips(1)(2)(3)(4) |     |  58 |     | Director                                        |     |           2017 |
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