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That Astronomer CEO's Coldplay Concert Fiasco Just Got Worse

Matt Vespa
Matt Vespa  |  July 19, 2025 6:30 AM

UPDATE: A secret home, an alleged affair, busted for all to see at a concert, placed on administrative leave... No shock that Mr. Byron resigned 

Via NY Post:

Andy Byron, the man caught canoodling his head of HR on a Coldplay concert jumbotron this week, has resigned from his big bucks CEO position of AI company Astronomer.

“As stated previously, Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met,” the company said in a statement. “Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted.”

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It went viral, and there’s nothing either person involved in this apparent torrid affair can do about it. Astronomer CEO Andy Byron was caught on ‘kiss cam’ at a Coldplay concert, intimately hugging his human relations chief, Kristin Cabot. Byron is married, and it seems the pair’s tryst got busted, which even frontman Chris Martin noted as the couple pulled away quickly, trying to duck the cameras. 

Martin can be heard saying that they’re either very shy or they’re having an affair. The reaction from the Byron and Cabot has sparked a slew of memes and reactions—all of which are hilarious if you haven’t seen them (via CNBC): 

Astronomer, a provider of open-source technologies that was hardly known until this week, said on Friday that CEO Andy Byron has been placed on leave after he was shown on video at a Coldplay concert in an intimate embrace with the company’s head of human relations. 

The company said in an emailed statement that co-founder and product chief Pete DeJoy is serving as interim CEO. 

“We will share more details as appropriate in the coming days,” the company said. 

Astronomer said earlier in the day in a post on X that it had launched a “formal investigation into this matter” and would soon have more to share. 

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The update on Byron comes a day after videos went viral on social media that showed the CEO on a big screen at the concert in Boston. Byron, who is married, had his arms around Kristin Cabot, the company’s chief people officer. 

The woman next to them, who seems to know what’s going on is also in the HR department: 

Last, Cabot and Byron appear to have bought a secret home together five months ago (via NY Post): 

Kristin Cabot, the HR executive caught canoodling with Astronomer CEO Andy Byron at a Coldplay concert, appears to be married to the CEO of a different company — and bought a house with him less than five months before the scandal hit, The Post has learned. 

Property records obtained by The Post show that the 52-year-old Cabot, whose maiden name is Stanek, has shared a Rye, New Hampshire address with Andrew Cabot — the chief executive of Privateer Rum, a Massachusetts-based booze maker — since at least 2023. 

Privateer Rum’s website lists Andrew Cabot as its CEO and COO of the company. His bio says his “ancestor, the original Andrew Cabot (1750-1791), was a merchant, rum distiller and successful American privateer during the American Revolution.” 

After being listed as co-residents at one address in Rye, Andrew and Kristin Cabot bought the two-story, four-bedroom New Englander-style house — located just minutes from the Atlantic coast — in February for $2.2 million, the records showed.

The pair is on administrative leave following this public relations fiasco.  

A Coldplay concert did them in—just unreal. And reportedly, this disaster couldn’t have happened to a better guy.