As a part of my series about “Life and Leadership Lessons Learned In The Military”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dan Park, the CEO of BuildDirect, a company that pioneered the online sales of building material products, bridging the gap between manufacturers and end-users and saving customers up to 60 percent on retail pricing.

BuildDirect, which specializes in shipping bulky building supplies and tools direct to homes and job sites in Canada and the United States, has dramatically enhanced its rewards program for professional contractors.

BuildDirect today announced its PRO Credit update, which the company described as an instant credit benefit as a part of the BuildDirect PRO Rewards Program.

BuildDirect, the marketplace for purchasing and selling quality home improvement materials online, has announced its Pro Credit update, an instant credit benefit as a part of the BuildDirect Pro Rewards Program.

BuildDirect announced its PRO Credit update, an instant credit benefit as a part of the BuildDirect PRO Rewards Program. Starting today, home improvement professionals registered as PROs earn instantly redeemable credit after every purchase.

Do you know that of developed countries Canada ranks among the lowest for mandatory paid vacation time.  We get two weeks paid vacation with that moving up to three weeks with seniority. In the states how much do they have to give?  NONE! They do not legally require employers to provide paid annual leave - though most people get about 10 days in the States. How much should people get?  The Vancouver based company BuildDirect allows their employees to make that decision for themselves.  They offer unlimited paid vacation days.

As it rebuilds its financial performance, the online merchant and marketplace operator is using techniques—and personnel—from Amazon Business to steer toward a bigger market share in sales to professional contractors and other businesses.

Three and a half years ago, having just raised $50 million from investors and with plans to hire hundreds more workers, BuildDirect was cementing its reputation as one of Vancouver’s most celebrated homegrown tech companies.

Vancouver-based BuildDirect, an online marketplace for home improvement products, announced that it is adding four new members to its executive team.

Online home improvement retailer BuildDirect on Monday said that newly arrived CEO Dan Park has built up its new leadership team and packed it with a few of his former colleagues at Amazon.

Three months after emerging from credit protection, Vancouver’s BuildDirect.com Technologies Inc. unveiled a new management team on Tuesday that is dominated by former Amazon.com Inc. executives.

BuildDirect, the Vancouver, BC.-based online home improvement store, went through a tough transition in recent months. In late October 2017, the company’s co-founder and CEO Jeff Booth stepped back from his job days before the company filed for the Canadian equivalent of bankruptcy protection. It then installed former Amazon executive Dan Park, who had only joined the company only a few weeks before, as its new CEO. Under Park, BuildDirect successfully restructured its debt and balance sheet and by late March of this year, it emerged from bankruptcy protection with new funding in place to help it find its feet again.

BuildDirect, a technology platform for the home improvement industry, has partnered with Affirm Inc. to offer its first credit option for its U.S.-based customers that will provide transparent payment alternatives.

BuildDirect today announced its partnership with Affirm Inc., a financial technology company that provides transparent payment alternatives to traditional credit. Now, U.S.-based BuildDirect customers have easy access to flexible and transparent financing options to pay for home improvement and renovation materials over time.

Often times, people speak in hyperbole when it comes to explaining just how quickly Canada’s tech and startup scene is growing. Sure, there’s reports, studies, and even blurbs from top tech personalities featuring words like explosive and unparalleled, but these explainers pale in comparison to hard numbers.

[Vancouver, B.C.] Now that BuildDirect has secured financing and has emerged from its creditor protection in both Canada and the United States, it is poised to continue its expansion plans to disrupt the home improvement business.

In an interview this week at Shoptalk in Las Vegas, Dan Park, CEO of BuildDirect, discusses how the home improvement online marketplace is using artificial intelligence (AI) to optimize merchandising its site, particularly pricing.

[Vancouver] BuildDirect has named Dan Park chief operating officer, where he will lead and be responsible for all commercial aspects of BuildDirect, including P&L management, buyer and seller acquisition and the buyer and seller experience.

A Vancouver-based Web site that sells flooring materials has again placed itself on  the Online Trust Alliance’s Top 50 Honor Roll, proving that Canadian companies can be among global leaders in security, consumer protection and privacy practices.

Joseph Thompson, vice president of Marketing for BuildDirect, discusses the BuildDirect organization and its history, the various categories of heavy building materials products it offers, and the logistics solutions it has developed to bring these products to its customer-base made up of consumers and contractors.