{"id":21944,"date":"2025-07-25T01:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21944\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T01:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:58:08","slug":"hr-exec-from-coldplay-kiss-cam-video-resigns-days-after-ceo-stands-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/21944\/","title":{"rendered":"HR exec from Coldplay kiss cam video resigns days after CEO stands down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kristin Cabot, the head of HR at Astronomer<\/a>, has resigned following the fallout of being caught on camera with the software company\u2019s CEO<\/a> on the \u201cjumbotron\u201d at a<\/a> Coldplay<\/a> concert.<\/p>\n

\u201cKristin Cabot is no longer with Astronomer. She has resigned,\u201d a company spokesperson confirmed to The Independent.<\/p>\n

It comes less than a week after CEO Andy Byron resigned<\/a> from his post. A company official previously told Axios<\/a> that Cabot had been put on leave pending its internal investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs stated previously, Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding,\u201d a statement released online at the time of Byron\u2019s departure read.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met,\u201d the company\u2019s statement released Saturday reads.<\/p>\n

\"Viral<\/p>\n

Viral video captured Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and his company\u2019s Chief People Officer, Kristin Cabot, in an embrace at the concert (@calebu2\/TMX)<\/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

Social media went into meltdown after video circulated showing the pair – later identified as Byron and Cabot – awkwardly jumping out of each other\u2019s arms as they flashed up on a \u201ckiss cam\u201d during the band\u2019s show in Boston.<\/p>\n

Byron, who is married to someone else, had his arms wrapped around Cabot\u2019s waist from behind and quickly let her go as his HR chief covered her face with her hands. He then crouched down, trying to hide from the camera.<\/p>\n

In its statement following Byron\u2019s departure, Astronomer also moved to quash rumors online that other employees were at the concert with the duo, and thus knew about the affair.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlyssa Stoddard was not at the event and no other employees were in the video,\u201d the company wrote in its statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kristin Cabot, the head of HR at Astronomer, has resigned following the fallout of being caught on camera…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4364,5489,49,48,361,75,4367,18036],"class_list":{"0":"post-21944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-andy-byron","9":"tag-astronomer","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-kristin-cabot","15":"tag-software-company"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944","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=21944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}