Katura Team & Collaborators
The people behind the work
Access a curated group of jewelry specialists — without assembling the team yourself. Each engagement is matched to the right expertise for the stage you're at.
Stella Barbosa
Director of Brand & Growth
Builds the brand and the audience that buys from it.
Stella Barbosa brings five years of marketing experience across multiple countries and markets, combining creative direction with hands-on campaign execution for jewelry and luxury businesses. She leads Katura's brand strategy, visual identity, campaign creative, and paid growth.
Brand strategy, campaign creative, and paid media — used to acquire and retain customers.
Campaign portfolio
Build My BrandLee Wiser McIntosh
Founder & Jewelry Designer
Originates the design concept and material story.
Lee Wiser McIntosh founded Katura in Atlanta in 1999. Her sculptural, material-led work — particularly with natural American river pearls, South Sea pearls, rough diamonds, and one-of-a-kind gemstones — has been covered by leading jewelry and lifestyle publications.
Design direction and finished, sellable jewelry — the starting point before engineering or visualization.
JCK — Raw Sugar Diamond & South Sea Pearl Ring (2013)
Develop My CollectionCAD Design Team
Jewelry CAD Design & Engineering
Specialist team
Engineers the piece so it can actually be cast, set, and worn.
Our CAD design team brings 16+ years of jewelry CAD experience, including work with major fine and fashion jewelry houses, and has trained jewelry CAD through FIT and GIA. Every design is engineered to be manufacturable before it ever reaches production.
Production-ready CAD files, technical drawings, and manufacturability review — the file a caster uses to make the real piece. Not a marketing image.
Team experience includes David Yurman, Alexis Bittar, Verragio, Temple St. Clair, Ippolita
Engineer My PieceMarketing Visuals Team
Jewelry Visualization & Motion
Specialist team
Makes the piece look irresistible for social and campaign launch.
Our visualization team creates photorealistic jewelry stills and fluid 360-degree animations that let brands present and market pieces before production begins. This work has earned strong organic attention on social media.
Photorealistic marketing stills and 360° animation for Instagram, ads, and landing pages — built to sell the look, not to manufacture from.
Visualize My JewelryZachary Rosser
Chief Technology Officer
Builds the system that connects every stage of the work.
Zachary Rosser is Katura's Chief Technology Officer and the technical architect behind K99. He leads the design and development of Katura's commerce, CRM, inventory, marketing, CAD, AI, document, analytics, and operations systems across web and mobile.
The K99 platform itself — commerce, CRM, CAD approvals, analytics, and operations software.
Explore K99Engineering vs. visualization — not the same thing
Both start from a 3D model of a piece. What each produces, and what it can be used for, is completely different.
Makes the piece real
CAD & Jewelry Engineering
Led by CAD Design Team
Production-ready CAD, technical drawings, and manufacturability review — the exact file a caster uses to cast, set, and finish the physical piece. Engineering-first. If it isn't manufacturable, it doesn't ship.
Used for: Casting, stone setting, quality control, and production.
Makes the piece sell
Renders & Animation
Led by Marketing Visuals Team
Photorealistic marketing stills and 360° animation, styled and lit for Instagram, ads, and landing pages — built to sell the look of a piece before or alongside production. Marketing-first, not a manufacturing file.
Used for: Social media, paid campaigns, and pre-production launch marketing.
Most collection launches use both: the CAD design team engineers the piece so it can be made, and the marketing visuals team visualizes it so it can be marketed.