About Us

GV Design Canada was established August 2008. Owned and operated by Shele Letwin, distributor of GemVision and Envision Tec products.

Shele has 10 years experience with selling and training with GemVision products. Her background includes working in her family’s jewellery store, Andrews Jewellers, in Calgary until she went to George Brown College in 1979 and received her Jewellery Arts Degree. Later, she attended GIA for her Jewellery Design Dipolma. In 1983, she moved back to Toronto and worked 5 years for Award winning Designer, Beni Sung. This is when she was really exposed to custom design. Developed her skills and won 2 DeBeer’s Design awards. At the same time, she taught Jewellery Design at George Brown College and for the Canadian Jewelers Association. Then moving to Vancouver, where she worked for Customgold MFG. for 10 years as a designer. Again winning several Canadian design awards and another DeBeer’s award. In 1999, Shele was offered a job at GemVision and moved to Iowa.

During the 4 years she was at GemVision, she taught Matrix and Digital Goldsmith, helped out with tech support and sales. It was at that time when Matrix was first developed. Working with the programmers, creating training tutorials, and writing the manual for Version 1 was an exciting time. Being at GemVision in the beginning, helped carved out the future of CADCAM for jewelers in Canada.

Shele returned to Toronto in 2003, since then she has continued to bring design technology to the Canadian Jeweller. Whether they are a retailer, manufacturer or trade shop, GV Design Canada is committed to keeping current as technology rapidly changes and helping jewelers with the decision to make CADCAM part of their business.