{"id":21620,"date":"2025-07-24T23:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21620\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T23:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T23:01:07","slug":"hr-chief-kristin-cabot-resigns-from-astronomer-on-heels-of-coldplay-kiss-cam-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21620\/","title":{"rendered":"HR chief Kristin Cabot resigns from Astronomer on heels of Coldplay kiss cam scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot has resigned following\u00a0her cheating scandal<\/a>\u00a0with the company\u2019s now-ex-CEO, Andy Byron.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can confirm that Kristin Cabot is no longer with Astronomer, she has resigned,\u201d a spokesperson for the company <\/a>told Page Six Thursday.<\/p>\n

Her resignation comes days after the AI and data-based company announced\u00a0it was launching a formal investigation<\/a> into the scandal and placed Cabot and Byron on leave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot has resigned following\u00a0her cheating scandal\u00a0with Andy Byron. kristinthornby\/linkedin<\/p>\n

Cabot\u2019s resignation comes after she and Byron were\u00a0placed on leave\u00a0after the AI and data-based company announced\u00a0it was launching a formal investigation into the scandal. Bain Capital Ventures<\/p>\n

On July 16, Byron and Cabot were caught getting close on the kiss cam while spending time together at the Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Grace Springer via Storyful<\/p>\n

\u201cAstronomer 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,\u201d the company\u00a0wrote via LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0July 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Board of Directors has initiated a formal investigation into this matter and we will have additional details to share very shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n

On July 16, Byron and Cabot were caught getting close on the kiss cam<\/a> while spending time together at the Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoa, look at these two,\u201d the band\u2019s lead singer, Chris Martin, said happily as the camera showed Byron holding Cabot from behind.<\/p>\n

Once the couple noticed they were on the jumbotron, the CEO immediately ducked out of view while Cabot hid her face in apparent embarrassment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoa, look at these two,\u201d the band\u2019s lead singer, Chris Martin, said happily as the camera showed Byron holding Cabot from behind. Nathan Congleton\/NBC via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Once the couple noticed they were on the jumbotron, the CEO immediately ducked out of view while Cabot hid her face in apparent embarrassment. Grace Springer via Storyful<\/p>\n

After the video went viral, information about Byron and Cabot\u2019s private lives \u2014 including their respective marriages \u2014 surfaced. Maud Cabot\/Facebook<\/p>\n

Martin, 48, was seemingly shocked by their bizarre behavior and publicly called them out.<\/p>\n

\u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy,\u201d the musician joked as the audience erupted in laughter.<\/p>\n

After the video went viral, information about Byron and Cabot\u2019s private lives \u2014 including their respective marriages \u2014 surfaced.<\/p>\n

Kristin, who has been the Chief People Officer at Astronomer since November 2024, is reportedly married to Andrew Cabot<\/a>, the CEO of Privateer Rum.<\/p>\n

Kristin is apparently married to Andrew Cabot, the CEO of Privateer Rum. Maud Cabot\/Facebook<\/p>\n

Andy is married to Megan Kerrigan Byron and they share two children. Megan Kerrigan\/Facebook<\/p>\n

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According to property records\u00a0obtained by The Post<\/a>, the Cabots are the co-owners of a $2.2 million two-story, four-bedroom New Englander-style that they purchased in February.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Andy is married to Megan Kerrigan Byron and they share two children. <\/p>\n

Once the video of her husband\u2019s affair made headlines, Megan dropped his last name from her Facebook page and ultimately deactivated her account<\/a> altogether.<\/p>\n

Less than 24 hours after the Astronomer employees were placed on leave, the company announced that Andy had resigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Less than 24 hours after the Astronomer employees were placed on leave, the company announced that Andy had resigned. Astronomer\/YouTube<\/p>\n

Kristin has been the Chief People Officer at Astronomer since November 2024. Astronomer<\/p>\n

\u201cAs 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,\u201d a rep for the tech company told Page Six on July 19.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted. The Board will begin a search for our next Chief Executive as Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to serve as interim CEO.\u201d<\/p>\n

Astronomer concluded, \u201cWhile awareness of our company may have changed overnight, our product and our work for our customers have not. We\u2019re continuing to do what we do best: helping our customers with their toughest data & AI problems.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Astronomer HR chief Kristin Cabot has resigned following\u00a0her cheating scandal\u00a0with the company\u2019s now-ex-CEO, Andy Byron. \u201cI can confirm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12726,276,49,48,364,362,17990,17991,4869,4870,3329,75,341,17992,61],"class_list":["post-21620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-affairs","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity-couples","tag-celebrity-news","tag-celebrity-pda","tag-ceos","tag-cheating","tag-coldplay","tag-concerts","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-resignations","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}