{"id":36718,"date":"2025-07-25T16:31:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/36718\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:31:09","slug":"in-coldplay-cam-scandal-second-executive-resigns-from-astronomer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/36718\/","title":{"rendered":"In Coldplay cam scandal, second executive resigns from Astronomer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The news comes days after Byron quit<\/a> amid the controversy that has consumed the Internet for days.<\/p>\n

The software company confirmed on July 19 that Byron had resigned, with cofounder Pete DeJoy sliding in to serve as interim CEO. <\/p>\n

Byron and Cabot, who held the title of chief people officer at Astronomer, vaulted to Internet infamy when a \u201ckiss cam\u201d at a July 16 Coldplay concert in Foxborough captured the pair canoodling. <\/p>\n

Cabot, wearing a sleeveless black dress, immediately covered her face and turned her back on the camera. Byron, a little slower on the draw, ducked out of the frame. They\u2019re both married to other people, at least as of this writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, look at these two,\u201d Coldplay frontman Chris Martin said from the stage. \u201cUh oh, what? Either they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re very shy.\u201d<\/p>\n

A couple of apparently clueless concertgoers in Byron and Cabot\u2019s box were seen cheering as the coworkers ducked out of the frame. <\/p>\n

The incident, caught on video, spread quickly on social media, where one post has been viewed more than 60 million times.<\/p>\n

The company said at the time of Byron\u2019s resignation that the incident was no laughing matter, releasing a statement that said company leaders \u201care expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to the kiss cam debacle, \u201cwe were known as a pioneer in the DataOps space,\u201d the company said. \u201cWhile awareness of our company may have changed overnight, our product and our work for our customers have not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Real estate records indicate that Byron and his wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, purchased a home in Northborough.<\/p>\n

Neither Byron nor Cabot have publicly announced their next professional roles. <\/p>\n

Material from prior Globe stories was used in this report. <\/p>\n

Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The news comes days after Byron quit amid the controversy that has consumed the Internet for days. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[29990,29991,24956,8731,236,15786,7069,29992,88,16117,29993,29994,4265,24],"class_list":["post-36718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-anna-lee-media-photography","tag-ayra-star","tag-band","tag-boston","tag-celebrities","tag-coldplay","tag-concert","tag-elyanna","tag-entertainment","tag-gillette-stadium","tag-live-music","tag-music-of-the-spheres-tour","tag-north-america","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}