Team Blackshark Spotlight - Meet the Owner | Carlos Hinkson
“It’ll work out, unless it doesn’t.”
- Carlos Hinkson
The Blackshark family is a highly motivated team of professionals who each operate in our individual niche of expertise resulting in the well oiled machine that we are. We love luxury vehicles and all the style that comes with them. It may appear at first glance that we deliver exotic cars, but we know we are really in the business of delivering dreams.
Over the next few weeks we will introduce you to our team and share a bit of the Blackshark story.
Meet Carlos | Owner / Founder
The leadership and vision casting for Blackshark comes from Blackshark Founder and Owner Carlos Hinkson. Carlos is a lifelong vehicle enthusiast with a passion for the rare and unique hidden gem. He has applied the skills and experience that he has learned dealing in high end service based sales industries over the years to serve car collectors across Western Canada and the USA, giving an unparalleled level of service to deliver his clients dreams of exotic and collectible car ownership.
Carlos was born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, and is proud of his Italian-Trinidadian heritage. Spending his childhood years in the northern BC community of Prince George he began forging connections and friendships that would stay with him for the long haul. He married Stephanie, his high school sweetheart in 2001. Together they set out to make their mark on the world and had their first child in Winnipeg. Shortly after they relocated to Burnaby in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia where their second son was born and finally settled in Kamloops, the transportation hub of western Canada.
Carlos spends most of his days elbows deep in the day to day operation of Blackshark Enterprises from truck and trailer maintenance and taking care of client relationships to hitting the open road and delivering these exotic cars himself. There is no feeling like delivering a car that is the fruition of a dream a client has worked so hard to achieve, it’s what keeps us going when things get tough! The open road provides an opportunity for this avid self learner to catch up on all the latest podcasts and audio books. Carlos is what some would call a multipotentialite, a person who is very adept and passionate in a variety of topics and skills, as a result having a conversation with him is an engaging experience in itself. He is forever learning from those he crosses paths with and is always up for an adventure. In his innermost circles, and maybe even a bit beyond, Carlos is known as an idea factory. Not only is he constantly learning he is always finding ways to put that knowledge into use. On a more personal note, relationships are a paramount priority for Carlos and the Hinkson household, so when he’s not “in the office” you’ll probably find him visiting with family and friends around a kitchen table, at a local ski hill or on a bicycle microbrewery crawl somewhere in the beautiful province of British Columbia. Health and wellness has always been very important key to help this busy entrepreneur maintain balance. His daily practice of movement is not up for discussion. Ask him about his favourite way to break a sweat the next time you’re chatting with him!
If you’ve spoken to Carlos on the phone you will have been greeted with the feeling of talking to a long lost friend. The core values of the Hinkson household permeate the fabric of the Blackshark brand, and for that we are all grateful. Once a client, forever a friend!