---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001698991-25-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "ACEL"
cik: "0001698991"
company_name: "Accel Entertainment, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T03:55:24.770932+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Accel CFO Mathew Ellis resigns; President US Gaming Mark Phelan named acting CFO

## Summary
- Ellis resigns effective May 9, 2025, to pursue other opportunities; no dispute with company.
- Mark Phelan, President U.S. Gaming, appointed acting CFO effective May 9.
- Company begins search for permanent CFO; expects business as usual during transition.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001698991-25-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: ACEL
- cik: 0001698991
- company_name: Accel Entertainment, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000169899125000017/0001698991-25-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000169899125000017/acel-20250429.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001698991-25-000017
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001698991-25-000017.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001698991-25-000017.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Mathew Ellis departed as Chief Financial Officer at Accel Entertainment, Inc..
  - Action: resigning
  - Role: Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On April 29, 2025, Mathew Ellis notified Accel Entertainment, Inc. (the “ Company ”) that he will be resigning from his position as Chief Financial Officer of the Company, effective as of May 9, 2025, to pursue other career opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000169899125000017/0001698991-25-000017-index.htm
- Executive change
  Mark Phelan was appointed as acting Chief Financial Officer at Accel Entertainment, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: acting Chief Financial Officer
  source text: Effective as of May 9, 2025, the Board appointed Mark Phelan, the Company’s President, US Gaming, as its acting Chief Financial Officer
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1698991/000169899125000017/0001698991-25-000017-index.htm

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