CodeLantern Adds Mike Green and Mike Wilson as Investors and Board Members
CodeLantern ·
Two ObjectSharp veterans back the consultancy founded by their former colleagues.
Toronto — May 7, 2026— CodeLantern, a software development consultancy built for the agentic era, today announced that Michael J. Green and Mike Wilson have joined as investors and members of the board of directors.
Green and Wilson spent more than a decade together at ObjectSharp, the Toronto-based Microsoft partner where Green served as President and CEO and Wilson as Vice President. CodeLantern was founded by veterans of that same firm, including David Judd, Nick Van Exan, and Jeff Zado. Both Mikes have invested in the company and will sit on its board.
The two bring forty-year careers building and scaling Canadian software businesses. They first worked together at Visual Systems Development Group in 1992, which they grew to 120 staff and $25M in revenue across five offices in six years, before its 1998 merger with IMRglobal. Green and Wilson later reunited at ObjectSharp, taking the company through a ten-fold expansion. Wilson has also spent twenty-five years as Principal of Gillam Capital, his sales and marketing advisory firm for software start-ups. Both were founding members of the Toronto Angel Group in 2000.
“Mike and Mike were in the room for most of the work that shaped how we build software. They watched us deliver mission-critical systems for fintech, healthcare, and government — clients that don’t tolerate guesswork. Having that operating experience in the boardroom for this next chapter is exactly what we want.”
CodeLantern launched in April to help engineering teams adopt agentic development without the failure modes that plague unsupervised AI coding: drifting conventions, lost context, and code that ships fast and breaks slow. The company embeds with customer teams to install a structured workflow, a knowledge base that grows with every pull request, and tooling that keeps the workflow and knowledge base accurate as the codebase evolves.
“I’ve watched this team ship enterprise software for fifteen years,” said Green. “They don’t chase trends. They build practices that hold up. Agentic development is the next inflection point in our industry, and CodeLantern’s approach — methodology and human gates over hype — is the right way to do it.”
“CodeLantern is built differently. They’re real builders, with purpose-built technology that fast-tracks organizations to a working agentic software development lifecycle,” said Wilson. “Pair that with a team that has been shipping mission-critical software together for twenty years, and you have a combination I haven’t seen anywhere else in this market.”
About Mike Green
Mike Green is a forty-year veteran of the Canadian software industry. He began his career as an IT consultant with IBM, Deloitte-Touche, Quasar Systems, and MDS Health Group, then spent eight years at Cognos as VP Product Marketing. He founded Visual Systems Development Group in 1992 and, with Mike Wilson leading sales, grew it to 120 staff and $25M in revenue across five offices in six years, before its 1998 merger with IMRglobal. He served as President and CEO of ObjectSharp from 2007 to 2022, scaling the consultancy ten-fold. He is a founding member and former director of the Toronto Angel Group. He currently runs Greenco Consulting Corp and serves on the board of FINCA Canada, a financial inclusion nonprofit. He holds a degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
About Mike Wilson
Mike Wilson has spent his career building and scaling software companies across Canada. He has been Principal of Gillam Capital, a sales and marketing advisory firm for software start-ups and growth companies, since 2001. Before founding Gillam, he was President of IMRglobal Ltd. through its acquisition by CGI, and earlier held senior sales roles at Visual Systems Development Corp., Ernst & Young, and CA. He served as Vice President of ObjectSharp from 2012 to 2022, and has held CEO and Chairman roles at ProfitPoint Inc. and adbeast respectively, both acquired in 2010. He is a founding member of the Toronto Angel Group. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Guelph.
About CodeLantern
CodeLantern is a software development consultancy that helps engineering teams adopt agentic workflows. Founded by veterans of one of Microsoft’s most trusted technical partners in Canada, the company embeds with developers to install methodology, tooling, and a knowledge base, all built to make AI-assisted development predictable and auditable. CodeLantern is headquartered in Toronto. Learn more at codelantern.ai.
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