---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001628280-25-017516"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACEL"
cik: "0001698991"
company_name: "Accel Entertainment, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-11T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T16:13:54.451953+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Director Eden Godsoe not standing for reelection; Cheryl Kondra appointed to board

## Summary
- Eden Godsoe, Class 3 director, will not stand for reelection at 2025 Annual Meeting; no disagreement cited.
- Cheryl Kondra appointed as Class 2 director effective April 10, 2025, term through 2027 Annual Meeting.
- Board size increased from 8 to 9 directors; Kondra to become Audit Committee Chair and Compensation Committee member.
- Kondra receives prorated cash fees of $65k (board), $25k (audit chair), $10k (comp committee) for 2025.
- Kondra receives prorated RSU grant of $140k vesting December 31, 2025, under Long Term Incentive Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001628280-25-017516
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACEL
- cik: 0001698991
- company_name: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-11T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000162828025017516/0001628280-25-017516-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000162828025017516/acel-20250410.htm

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## Key facts
- Executive change
  Cheryl Kondra was appointed as Class 2 director at Accel Entertainment, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class 2 director
  source text: on April 10, 2025, the Board appointed Cheryl Kondra, effective immediately, as a Class 2 director on the Board with a term expiring at the Company’s 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000162828025017516/0001628280-25-017516-index.htm
- Executive change
  Eden Godsoe departed as Class 3 director at Accel Entertainment, Inc..
  - Action: will not stand for reelection
  - Role: Class 3 director
  source text: On April 10, 2025, Eden Godsoe, a Class 3 director on the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Accel Entertainment, Inc. (the "Company"), informed the Company that she will not stand for reelection at the Company’s upcoming 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000162828025017516/0001628280-25-017516-index.htm

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