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.
Latest News
- IHMC’s Morley Stone stepping down; Chief Science Officer Tim Broderick to become new CEO
- STEM-Talk: Dom D’Agostino discusses advances in ketogenic metabolic therapies and hyperbaric oxygen therapies
- IHMC’s new humanoid Alex aces its first off-site, off-tether demonstration
- A Letter From Our CEO
- IHMC project helps pioneer new tools for warfighters
- STEM-Talk: Doug Cooke talks about strengths and flaws of NASA’s Artemis mission
- IHMC hosts national workshop on collaborative autonomy
- Community turnout lifts IHMC clinical trial to a great start
- Two IHMC researchers named to top posts in worldwide organizations

