Duff Goldman founded Charm City Cakes in Baltimore, MD in March of 2002. Before CCC, Duff was a pastry chef, Chef, grafitti/street artist and a metal sculpture artist. Duff has a large collection of brightly colored sneakers, and probably more shoes than anyone else at Charm City Cakes.

Anna was born in Richmond, Virginia and graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art. Anna began her career at Charm City Cakes over eight years ago as their first intern and third employee ever and has been giving Duff Goldman a hard time ever since. She is a cutthroat scrabble player with a fondness for all things domestic and a diehard Baltimore Ravens fan.

Katherine began working at Charm City Cakes in Baltimore back in 2006. She has also enjoyed a career in performing arts with the dance trio Bobby and the Lexie Mountain Boys. She is from West Virginia, wild and wonderful, and is loving the California palms. However, she will always bleed purple for her Baltimore Ravens.

Lauren F. has worked for Charm City Cakes since 2008. She graduated from Maryland Institute College of Art, where she (arguably) majored in karaoke. She is a proud native of Durham, North Carolina, and an avid fan of reality television.

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Born 1974 in the sign of capricorn, Jared is fiercely organized and uses his boundless energy to get done what needs doing. Jared is a graduate of UC Santa Cruz who loves his daughter Chloe, bicycling, swimming, blueberries and his wild cat Diego. He is from all over, but currently and happily, calls California home.

Sean started working with Charm City Cakes in 2007. He is ecstatic to be living and working in California. He is not yet living the dream, though he has been known to dream.

Before working at Charm City Cakes West, Mark was born in Baltimore, MD, studied literature and law at the University of Maryland, where he received his BA, then worked for four years at Baltimore’s Charm City Cakes. He has written about Baltimore’s regional music, worked for the Public Defender’s Office of Baltimore City, and is excited to experience Los Angeles.

Tim was raised an “Army Brat” in Fort Bragg, NC. His life-long passion is film – mainly 80′s Sci-fi and Horror movies. He has been a Hollywood special FX make-up artist for over 12 years working on films like Spiderman, Jurrasic Park 3, Hellboy, and more. Tim recently wrote and directed his first feature film and is still heavily involved in FX.  ”Being a part of CCC is a new,                                                                                    challenging and exciting artistic                                                                                          adventure.”

Originally from Montreal, Lauren first joined the team as an intern at the end of 2011. After 4 years of working for lululemon, Lauren traded in her yoga pants for chef pants when she enrolled in Culinary School in the fall of 2010. She is passionate about yoga, trail running, skiing, her family and friends, chocolate eclairs, and of course, baking cakes.

Beverly was raised on the sunny beaches of South Florida. She earned an MFA degree from Baltimore’s own Maryland Institute College of Art in 2010. When she’s not having fun with the rest of the CCCW team, Beverly can probably be found painting in her studio. She’s glad to call Los Angeles home and looks forward to hearing all about your cake idea!