About us

From IAM expertise to Seafront

Seafront IGA is developed by Haidion, a Finnish identity and access management company. The platform grew directly out of the practical work of running identity governance in complex environments.

Company story

Experience gathered in the field

Haidion was founded in 2018 in Helsinki by identity and access management practitioners. The team has spent years inside large enterprise and public sector identity programmes, working on architecture, integrations, access governance and the day to day operation of identity platforms.

That work covers the parts of identity governance that rarely appear in product datasheets: joiners who are also suppliers, organisations that reorganise mid project, source systems that disagree with each other, and access models that were designed for a company that no longer exists.

The problems that led to Seafront

Across those programmes the same pattern kept repeating. Identity governance was slow to deploy, difficult to configure and expensive to change. Value arrived late, and small policy adjustments turned into projects of their own.

The obstacle was rarely the ambition of the organisation. It was the rigidity of the tooling, which expected the organisation to reshape itself around a fixed identity model.

Why a product, not only a service

Consulting can solve one environment at a time. Making identity governance genuinely easier required the knowledge to be built into the platform itself, so that configuration, policy and oversight are part of the product rather than bespoke work.

Seafront turns that experience into a SaaS platform: deployed in days, configured by describing what you need, and operated with policies, approvals, human oversight and a complete audit trail intact.

A European foundation

Seafront is developed and supported in Europe. Privacy, security and evolving European regulatory expectations are part of how the product is designed rather than a later addition.

The ambition is straightforward: enterprise grade identity governance that organisations can adopt, operate and change without a multi year programme.

Company facts

Founded
2018
Headquarters
Helsinki, Finland
Company
Privately held
Focus
Identity Governance and Administration
Leadership

Meet the Seafront leadership team

Seafront is developed by a broader team of IAM specialists, software developers and business professionals. Our leadership team brings decades of experience in identity, enterprise technology and business.

  • Miika Kauppi, CEO

    Miika Kauppi

    CEO

    Miika has over 15 years of experience in identity and access management, including IAM architecture, procurement and complex implementations from both customer and consulting perspectives. As CEO, he leads the company behind Seafront and its continued development, with a focus on making identity governance practical to deploy and operate.

  • Joonatan Henriksson, Deputy CEO

    Joonatan Henriksson

    Deputy CEO

    Joonatan has more than 15 years of experience in IAM programmes for large enterprises and public-sector organisations. His background combines technical identity expertise with business consulting and service development. At Seafront, he turns complex identity requirements into practical solutions and scalable ways of working.

  • Tiina Hentunen-Vanninen, Sales Director

    Tiina Hentunen-Vanninen

    Sales Director

    Tiina has more than 30 years of experience in the IT industry and over 15 years in identity and access management. Her background spans IAM business, customer development and the commercial side of cybersecurity. At Seafront, she works with customers and partners to identify where identity governance can deliver the greatest value.

Let’s build trusted identity governance together.

Whether you are evaluating Seafront, looking for a European IGA alternative or interested in partnering with us, we would be happy to talk.