David Bear
David Bear is he owner and Chief Executive Officer of The Lewis Bear Company, a beverage distributorship founded in 1876 in Pensacola. He and his company founded the Bear Family Foundation in 2002, which has awarded millions of dollars in grants to more than 118 local nonprofit organizations serving Northwest Florida. He served on the Board of Triumph Gulf Coast, the nonprofit corporation funded by a legal settlement with BP following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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