Accel Entertainment appoints new director to board
The company has named six directors to its board, including Bruce D. Wardinski.
US.- Accel Entertainment has announced the election of six directors to its board, including Bruce D. Wardinski as a new independent director. He will serve on the board’s Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Wardinski is the founder and former chairman and CEO of Playa Hotels & Resorts, which was bought by Hyatt Hotels Corporation’s in June 2025. He currently serves as non-executive chairman of DiamondRock Hospitality Company. He previously served as CEO of Barceló Crestline Corporation and held senior financial roles at Host Marriott Corporation.
Andy Rubenstein, chairman and chief executive officer of Accel Entertainment, said: “We are pleased to welcome Bruce to the Accel board. Bruce has spent his career in the hospitality and real estate business, most recently building and ultimately monetising a complex, multi-site business with a strong local operating footprint as a public company CEO accountable to shareholders. That experience maps directly to where Accel is today – a proven platform with meaningful growth ahead of it. His perspective on capital allocation and long-term value creation will be an asset to our Board as we continue to scale.”
Wardinski commented: “I am pleased to join the Accel board at an exciting moment for the company. Accel has built a genuinely differentiated platform – a large, distributed network with deep roots in the communities it serves and a business model that has demonstrated its resilience. I look forward to working with Andy and the rest of the Board on capital allocation, growth strategy and governance as the company continues to grow.”
In Q1, the company’s revenue was $352m, an increase of 9 per cent year-on-year. Net income was flat at $15m while adjusted EBITDA increased 9 per cent to $54m.
