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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 corporate governance is responsible for:

• identifying and recommending candidates for membership on the Board;

• recommending directors to serve on board committees;

• reviewing and recommending the Company’s corporate governance guidelines and policies;

• reviewing senior management succession, including with respect to the chief executive officer;

• evaluating, and overseeing the process of evaluating, the performance of the Board and individual directors;

• assisting the Board on corporate governance matters; and

• reviewing the Company’s compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations and overseeing the Compliance Committee of the Company.

Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has the authority to retain advisors as the committee deems appropriate. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is comprised of Mr. Peterson, the chair of the committee, Mses. Philips and Robinson and Mr. Ruttenberg. Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has a written charter that sets forth the committee’s purpose and responsibilities.

#### Identifying and Evaluating Director Candidates
Our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee will consider persons recommended by stockholders for inclusion as nominees for election to our Board. Stockholders wishing to recommend director candidates for consideration by the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee may do so by writing to the attention of the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at 140 Tower Drive, Burr Ridge, Illinois 60527, and giving the

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recommended nominee’s name, biographical data and qualifications, accompanied by the written consent of the recommended nominee.

With the goal of developing an experienced and highly qualified Board, our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee is responsible for developing and recommending to our Board the desired qualifications, expertise and characteristics of members of our Board, including qualifications that the committee believes must be met by a committee-recommended nominee for membership on our Board and specific qualities or skills that the committee believes are necessary for one or more of the members of our Board to possess. Such factors include independence, integrity, diversity, age, skills, financial and other expertise, breadth of experience, knowledge about the Company’s business or industry and willingness and ability to devote adequate time and effort to Board responsibilities in the context of the existing composition, other areas that are expected to contribute to the Board’s overall effectiveness and needs of the Board and its committees.

#### Board Composition and Diversity
While we do not have a formal policy outlining the diversity standards to be considered when evaluating director candidates, our objective is to foster diversity of thought on our Board. To accomplish that objective, the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee considers ethnic and