---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-22-046876"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PLAY"
cik: "0001525769"
company_name: "Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-04-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T06:53:00.797269+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Dave & Buster's Appoints Gail Mandel to Board; Trish Mueller to Retire at Annual Meeting

## Summary
- Gail Mandel, former Wyndham executive, appointed to Board effective April 18, 2022; joins Audit and Nominating/Governance Committees.
- Ms. Mandel designated as independent director and Audit Committee Financial Expert; Board expands to eight members.
- Patricia Mueller (Board since 2015) will not stand for re-election at June 2022 Annual Meeting, reducing Board to seven directors.
- Compensation Committee approved new forms of nonqualified stock options, PSUs, and RSUs for fiscal 2022 equity awards.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-22-046876
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PLAY
- cik: 0001525769
- company_name: Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-04-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1525769/000110465922046876/0001104659-22-046876-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1525769/000110465922046876/tm2212908d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-22-046876.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Gail Mandel was appointed as Director at Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On April 14, 2022, the Board of Directors (“Board”) of Dave & Buster’s Entertainment, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed Gail Mandel, 53, to the Board and the Audit and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees of the Board, effective April 18, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1525769/000110465922046876/0001104659-22-046876-index.htm
- Executive change
  Patricia Mueller departed as Director at Dave & Buster's Entertainment, Inc..
  - Action: not standing for re-election
  - Role: Director
  source text: As previously disclosed, Ms. Mueller is completing her current term and not standing for re-election at the 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1525769/000110465922046876/0001104659-22-046876-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.