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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 the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Scott Levin has served as Accel’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary since March 2025. Prior to joining Accel in March 2025, Mr. Levin served as the managing director of Portco Advisors LLC from January 2024 to March 2025, where he served as outside general counsel and executive advisor to various startups and portfolio companies of family office, private equity and venture capital firms. Prior to Portco Advisors LLC, he worked at Atlas Power Group LLC, a premier datacenter operator, where he served as Advisor from December 2022 to January 2024 and as Chief Legal Officer, Chief People Officer and Secretary from November 2021 to December 2022. Prior to this experience, Mr. Levin held several executive positions, including Chief Executive Officer, Chief Adminstrative Officer, General Counsel and Secretary, with FTD Companies, Inc., a global provider of technology products and services for the gifting and floral industry, from September 2013 to September 2021. Mr. Levin has also held General Counsel positions at Coskata, Inc., Morton's Restaurant Group, Inc., Torex Retail Americas, and OurHouse, Inc. Mr Levin received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston College and his Juris Doctor from The George Washington University.

Each of our executive officers serves at the discretion of our Board and holds office until his or her successor is duly elected and qualified or until his or her earlier resignation or removal.

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Our Compensation Committee is comprised of Eden Godsoe, Karl Peterson and Kathleen Philips. Other than Mr. Peterson, who served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Pace prior to the consummation of the Business Combination, none of the foregoing individuals has ever served as an officer or employee of the Company. For information required to be disclosed under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K, if any, for Mr. Peterson and Mses. Godsoe or Philips, please see the section entitled “ Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions ”.

None of our executive officers currently serves, or in the past year has served, as a member of the board or compensation committee of any other entity at which any of our executive officers have served on the board, or the Compensation Committee, of the Company.

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### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

#### Compensation Discussion and Analysis

#### Introduction
Our business