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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expertise, financial acumen and business industry contacts make him well qualified to serve as a member of our Board.

#### Family Relationships
Gordon Rubenstein is the brother of our Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Rubenstein.

#### Board Structure
Our COI provides for a classified board of directors with staggered three-year terms, consisting of the three classes as follows:

| Class                                         |     | Director            |     | Independent |
| Class 1 (term expires at 2026 annual meeting) |     | Karl Peterson       |     | Yes         |
|                                               |     | Dee Robinson        |     | Yes         |
|                                               |     | Andrew Rubenstein   |     | No          |
| Class 2 (term expires at 2027 annual meeting) |     | Gordon Rubenstein   |     | No          |
|                                               |     | David W. Ruttenberg |     | Yes         |
|                                               |     | Cheryl Kondra       |     | Yes         |
| Class 3 (term expires at 2025 annual meeting) |     | Eden Godsoe(1)      |     | Yes         |
|                                               |     | Kathleen Philips    |     | Yes         |
|                                               |     | Kenneth B. Rotman   |     | Yes         |

(1) Ms. Godsoe is not standing for re-election at the Annual Meeting.

The Board has determined that Messrs. Peterson, Rotman and Ruttenberg and Mses. Godsoe, Kondra, P hilips and Robinson each qualify as an “independent director,” as defined in the corporate governance rules of the NYSE.

As further explained in Proposal 1, if Proposal 1 passes, the COI will be amended to provide for a gradual declassification of our Board and provide for the annual election of directors, beginning with our Class 3 directors standing for election at the Annual Meeting, with the other classes continuing for the remainder of their respective three-year terms. Therefore, if Proposal 1 passes, our Class 3 directors standing for election and consisting of Kathleen Philips and Kenneth B. Rotman will stand for election for a one-year term expiring at our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders; at our 2026 annual meeting of stockholders, our Class 1 and Class 3 directors will stand for election for a one-year term expiring at our 2027 annual meeting of stockholders; and, at our