{"id":9869,"date":"2025-07-20T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9869\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T06:27:08","slug":"astronomer-ceo-resigns-after-viral-coldplay-concert-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/9869\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomer CEO resigns after viral Coldplay concert incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Andy Byron, the chief executive of New York-based tech company Astronomer, has resigned from his role after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/18\/entertainment\/coldplay-concert-kiss-cam-astronomer-investigation?cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:he was spotted embracing an employee at a Coldplay concert;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">he was spotted embracing an employee at a Coldplay concert<\/a>, according to a statement shared with CNN on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Astronomer\u2019s board of directors accepted Byron\u2019s resignation and will begin searching for its next CEO, according to the statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Following the viral video of Byron, alleged statements from Byron acknowledging the situation began to circulate online. Astronomer said in an earlier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/astronomer_astronomer-is-committed-to-the-values-and-activity-7352044359338373121-Fwe5?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAADRBqfYB-5Me_a9ptAMjVd2k0WKilo3Zci4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:LinkedIn post;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">LinkedIn post<\/a> that Byron \u201chas not put out any statement\u201d and \u201creports saying otherwise are all incorrect.\u201d That statement also addressed the misidentification of a third person seen in the clip circulating on the internet in the day following the video\u2019s release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CNN was unable to contact Byron for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Wednesday, Byron was seen with Kristin Cabot, the company\u2019s chief people officer, on the \u201ckiss cam\u201d screen at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, before both ducked out of view.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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 the company said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The data operations company, which was founded in 2018, acknowledged that \u201cawareness of our company may have changed overnight,\u201d but its mission would continue to be focused on addressing data and artificial intelligence problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/astronomer_cofounder-and-chief-product-officer-pete-activity-7352138456208166912-_RFL?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAADRBqfYB-5Me_a9ptAMjVd2k0WKilo3Zci4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Friday;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Friday<\/a> said Astronomer\u2019s co-founder and chief product officer Pete DeJoy would serve as interim CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Byron\u2019s LinkedIn account is no longer public and he was removed from the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomer.io\/about-us\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:leadership page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">leadership page<\/a> following the announcement, which now lists co-founder DeJoy as CEO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Byron is still listed on the company\u2019s website as a member of the board of directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This story has been updated with additional content.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/register?source=external-feeds_iluminar&amp;cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo&amp;registration_email_campaign=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CNN.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Byron, the chief executive of New York-based tech company Astronomer, has resigned from his role after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4364,5489,49,48,9870,66,306,8099],"class_list":{"0":"post-9869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-andy-byron","9":"tag-astronomer","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-interim-ceo","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-viral-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869","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=9869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}