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Section 5 – Corporate Governance and Management
Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
On May 8, 2020 the Company appointed John C. Hockin, 50, to its Board of Directors effective immediately. Mr. Hockin will serve on the Compensation Committee and Finance Committee of the Board of Directors.
Mr. Hockin is Managing Director, Public Equity Investing, with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a global investment firm with over $200bn of assets under management, serving in this role since April 2015. Previously he was Co-Head of Public Equity Investing at Golden Gate Capital, a San Francisco-based private equity firm with over $12bn in committed capital under management, from 2010 to 2015, Partner at J.H. Whitney & Co., a private equity firm founded in 1946, from 1995 to 2010, and Analyst at Morgan Stanley, a financial holding company providing various financial products and services to corporations, governments, financial instructions and individuals globally, from 1993-1995. He is a graduate of Yale University (B.A. Economics) and Stanford University Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.). He brings skills in leadership, strategy, investments, governance, and finance to the Board.
The Company is not aware of any arrangements or understandings between Mr. Hockin and any other person pursuant to which he was selected as a director. The Company is not aware of any transaction in which Mr. Hockin has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.
Mr. Hockin declined to be compensated for his service on the Board.
On May 12, 2020, the Company issued a press release announcing the appointment of Mr. Hockin to the Board. A copy of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.
In the press release issued on May 12, 2020, the Company announced Mr. Victor L. Crawford notified the Board that he will be retiring from the Board at the end of his current term due to time limitations. His decision to retire is not as a result of any disagreement with the Company.
Section 9 – Financial Statements and Exhibits.
Item 9.01. Financial Statements and Exhibits.
(d) Exhibits.
| 99.1 | Press release dated May 12, 2020. |
104 Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| DAVE &BUSTER'S ENTERTAINMENT, INC. | |||
| Date: May 12, 2020 | By: | /s/ Robert W. Edmund | |
| Robert W. Edmund | |||
| Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | |||