A veteran ecommerce company that sells building and related supplies to both professional contractors and consumers is changing its top leadership.

Dan Park, chairman and former CEO of BuildDirecct.com Technologies, who has been named CEO of Imperfect Foods.

In October, BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc., which specializes in selling large quantities of building materials and finished products for home improvement projects, announced that CEO Dan Park was stepping down as the company’s top executive but would remain as board chairman.

Park, a former Amazon Business executive who was appointed BuildDirect CEO in 2017, is now the newly appointed CEO of Imperfect Foods, a startup that specializes in delivering groceries that could otherwise go to waste, according to his profile on LinkedIn.

To replace Park, BuildDirect, which in August debuted as a public company on the TSX Venture Exchange, or TSXV, named David Lazar to be interim CEO while the hunt for a permanent replacement is underway.

Most recently, Lazar served as CEO of Bailey 44, a women’s apparel brand, where he led a company rebuilding initiative before its sale to Digital Brands Group in February 2020. He has also held a range of CEO and senior executive roles with organizations including Wantable Inc., Joyus Inc., Stitch Fix, and Twenty Tees, according to BuildDirect.com.

For the three months ended Sept. 30, Vancouver, British Columbia-based BuildDirect posted sales of C$22.4 million (US$17.9 million) and income of C$673,240 (US$538,299).

In August, BuildDirect completed a reverse takeover with VLCTY Capital Inc. to establish BuildDirect as a public company. Under the terms of the transaction, VLCTY acquired BuildDirect and took the company’s name. BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc. began trading on the TSXV, a public venture capital marketplace for emerging companies, on Aug. 18, 2021, under the symbol BILD. A reverse takeover is the acquisition of a private company by an existing public company so that the private company can bypass the lengthy and complex process of going public.

“Becoming a publicly traded company is an important milestone for BuildDirect and a key step forward as we leverage our digital platform and expand our reach into brick and mortar independent retailers and capture the underserved B2B professionals,” Park said when the company went public.

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