§ About — Who you deal with

We only work in logistics. That is the entire proposition.

Blackridge is a specialist lead generation firm working exclusively with freight forwarders, 3PLs, parcel carriers and fulfilment operators across the UK, Ireland and Europe.

Most agencies treat freight like any other sector and run a playbook borrowed from software. We do not, because we cannot: the only playbook we have is a decade of selling road, air, sea and express at DSV, DHL, DPD and DX.

Denas Cibirka, Founder of Blackridge Commercial Intelligence
A decade in the buyer’s chair
Denas Cibirka
Founder · Blackridge Commercial Intelligence

Denas spent ten years on the other side of this conversation. Quoting lane rates. Modelling total landed cost against an incumbent’s headline price. Sitting in a transport manager’s office at eight in the morning explaining why a groupage service slipped, then presenting a quarterly review to a supply chain director the same afternoon.

He sets the ICP on every engagement, signs off every list before it is used, and writes every sequence himself. That part is never delegated, because it is the part that only a decade in freight can do.

“I know which subject lines a commercial director deletes, because I deleted them. Blackridge exists because I spent a decade wanting to buy this service and never finding anyone who could sell it properly.”

Denas Cibirka · Founder
Chester, EnglandUK · Ireland · Europe
CSCMPProfessional Certificate, 2026
§01 — The record

The decade behind the methodology.

Everything below is on Denas’s CV, dated, and verifiable through references. It is his own sales record, not Blackridge client results. Those are on the Results page, and they are kept deliberately separate.

2026

DX Group · DX Express

Business Development Manager
B2B parcel & freight · North West
New business acquisition across SME and mid-market accounts.
  • Full cycle from cold outreach and qualification through solution design and implementation handover
  • Invoice data analysis and competitor benchmarking to build propositions on total landed cost, not headline rate
  • Left in July 2026 to run Blackridge full time
2023 – 2025

DSV · Global Transport & Logistics

Client Account Manager
Multi-modal · North of England & Scotland
Air cargo, ocean, road and express with full P&L accountability.
  • £2,500,000 active multi-modal pipeline built
  • £140,000 gross profit generated in 2025 across integrated service lines
  • £108,000+ annualised revenue recovered, 36% of lost book of business, inside six months
  • 18% YoY growth, reversing portfolio attrition from negative
  • Highest-performing Q4 account won inside two months, displacing the incumbent carrier
2023

RBC Group

National BDM
Specialist & white-glove logistics
National hunter role in two-man delivery, white-glove fulfilment and high-value goods.
  • £400,000 qualified pipeline in four months, fastest ramp-up in team history
  • Built from a standing start in verticals he had never sold into
2022 – 2023

DHL Express

Account Manager
Express & international · customs
Dual mandate: retention of high-value express accounts plus new business acquisition.
  • £336,000 annual contract secured through multi-modal solution design
  • 34% new-business conversion, highest in the regional team
  • 161% of new-business target in the first live selling week
  • £600,000+ portfolio across 140 accounts; +22% revenue per client through cross-sell
2018 – 2022

DPDgroup UK

Account Manager
Regional parcel portfolio
Field-based commercial ownership of a high-value regional book.
  • £800,000+ portfolio at 98–100% retention across four years
  • Zero involuntary account losses in four years
  • Highest retention and API performance in the North West, two consecutive years, across 40+ account managers
  • +12% portfolio value annually through upsell and renegotiation
2017 – 2018

DHL Parcel

Field Sales Executive
Promoted from Account Manager
New business hunter across retail, e-commerce and B2B distribution.
  • 600% over new-business target in the first four months
  • 28 net-new accounts against a five-per-month quota
  • Promoted after eight months; selected to coach new hires on pipeline and objection handling
2026 →Full time

Blackridge Commercial Intelligence

Founder
Registered in England & Wales No. 17303505
Built to be the thing we could never buy: outbound run by people who have actually sold freight.
  • Every sequence written by Denas personally
  • Logistics only, no adjacent sectors, ever

On verification: every figure above is drawn from Denas’s CV and can be substantiated on request. References available before you sign anything.

§02 — Why it matters

Why it matters that we sold this before we sold for you.

The list is built with judgement, not filters

Anyone can pull a list of companies with “logistics” in the SIC code. Knowing which of those actually tenders, which is locked into a three-year contract, which has just lost a depot and which is a reseller pretending to be a carrier. That comes from having quoted them.

The copy sounds like it came from inside

Your prospects can tell within one line whether the sender has ever shipped a pallet. Ours open on things the reader has personally been dealing with: a fee restructure, a payout delay, a depot closure. We were dealing with them too.

The qualification is real qualification

We know the difference between “send me a rate card” from a procurement tyre-kicker and “send me a rate card” from someone whose incumbent has just missed three SLAs. You get the second kind, with the context that tells you which it is.

We have been the ones receiving the handover

We know what a useless lead looks like when it lands in your inbox: a name, a company, no context, no volumes, no reason to call. Every brief we hand over is the one we always wanted and never got.

§03 — Limits

What we do not do.

Stated plainly, so nobody wastes a call finding out.

How we work
  • Logistics and supply chain only: freight forwarding, 3PL, parcel, same-day, fulfilment, customs brokerage
  • Fixed monthly retainers, invoiced in advance
  • Your leads are never resold
  • Every lead exclusive to you and never resold
What we will not do
  • Per-lead fees or commission. It rewards volume over quality and we will not price that way
  • Work outside logistics, however good the money is
  • Buy a list. Every contact is researched and verified before a single email goes out
  • Report on impressions, brand awareness, or anything that is not a reply from a decision-maker
  • Hand you to an account manager. Denas is on every call and writes every sequence
§04 — Next

Thirty minutes. No deck. No hard sell.

You tell us what you sell and who you sell to. We tell you whether we can help and what it would look like. If we are not the right fit, we will say so on the call.