{"id":74244,"date":"2025-07-19T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74244\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T02:29:10","slug":"astronomer-launches-formal-investigation-after-married-ceo-andy-byron-and-hr-boss-caught-on-coldplay-kiss-cam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/74244\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomer launches \u2018formal investigation\u2019 after married CEO Andy Byron and HR boss caught on Coldplay \u2018kiss cam\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Software company Astronomer<\/a> has launched a formal investigation after its married CEO<\/a> and head of HR<\/a> were caught being intimate at a <\/a>Coldplay<\/a> concert, engulfing the internet<\/a> in rumors of an alleged affair between the boss and his underling.<\/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 said in a statement on LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

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

Social media went into meltdown after footage circulated showing two people – later identified as Andy Byron and his company\u2019s Chief People Officer Kristin 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 Wednesday night.<\/p>\n

Byron, who had his arms wrapped around Cabot\u2019s waist from behind, 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

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Software company Astronomer has launched a formal investigation after its CEO Andy Byron and head of HR Kristin Cabot were caught being intimate at a Coldplay concert, engulfing the internet in rumors of an alleged affair between them (TikTok @instaagraace)<\/p>\n

Software company Astronomer has launched a formal investigation after its CEO Andy Byron and head of HR Kristin Cabot were caught being intimate at a Coldplay concert, engulfing the internet in rumors of an alleged affair between them (TikTok @instaagraace)<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, what…either they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy,\u201d Coldplay frontman Chris Martin quipped as the pair ran away from where they were standing.<\/p>\n

In its statement the company sought to clarify several details about the incident and the aftermath, Byron\u2019s alleged response.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndy Byron has not put out any statement, reports saying otherwise are all incorrect,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

Though Byron has kept mum on the incident, Astronomer co-founder Ry Walker, who was CEO himself from 2015 to 2019, and worked with him briefly, spoke out on X. \u201cI\u2019ve found Andy to be professional, I\u2019ve only ever been on a call with him once,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone on the team has praised his leadership to me. So I think this is an unfortunate development that comes as a big surprise,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Byron has been CEO of Astronomer, a New York City-based data orchestration platform that \u201cempowers data teams to bring mission-critical analytics, Ai, and software to life,\u201d since 2023, according to the company\u2019s LinkedIn page.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Cabot joined the team nine months ago, according to her LinkedIn.<\/p>\n

Despite the official investigation, hundreds cracked jokes online about the awkward situation, speculating that the two were cheating on their spouses.<\/p>\n

\u201c:ol if they\u2019d have just stuck it out and smiled for the camera this would never have surfaced as virally as it did,\u201d one internet user wrote. \u201cTheir spouses would have left them anyway once they learned of their Coldplay fetish,\u201d another joked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Software company Astronomer has launched a formal investigation after its married CEO and head of HR were caught…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":74245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[49362,49365,33500,51774,49363,4201,159,19781,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-74244","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-coldplay","11":"tag-formal-investigation","12":"tag-kristin-cabot","13":"tag-linkedin","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-software-company","16":"tag-space","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}