In September 2020, he announced that he was forming a new political party, the Free Democratic Movement, to contest the 2020 Bermudian general election.

[1] In addition to being a politician, Bean is also a businessman and a qualified air traffic control specialist, possessing a FAA commercial pilot's license, with multi-engine, and instrument ratings.

Bean sat in the Senate until 2010, and served as junior for the Minister of Tourism, Transport, Environment, and Sport, and later, the Ministry of Telecommunications, E-Commerce and Energy.

In December 2010, following the retirement of then-Premier Brown, Bean was elected to replace him as the Parliamentary Representative for Constituency 26, Warwick South Central.

In November 2011 Bean was named to the Cabinet of then-Premier Paula Cox, serving as Minister of Environment, Planning and Infrastructure Strategy.