{"id":90745,"date":"2025-07-25T07:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90745\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T07:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T07:02:12","slug":"astronomer-chief-people-officer-kristin-cabot-resigns-after-viral-coldplay-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/90745\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomer chief people officer, Kristin Cabot, resigns after viral Coldplay video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Facebook<\/p>\n<p>                Tweet<\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"social-share_labelled-list__share\" href=\"mailto:?subject=CNN%20content%20share&amp;body=Check%20out%20this%20article%3A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F07%2F24%2Fbusiness%2Fastronomer-kristin-cabot-resigns-coldplay-video-hnk\" data-type=\"email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"share with email\" title=\"Share with email\"><\/p>\n<p>                Email<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Link<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi6q7su001u27p32yj19v9z@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Kristin Cabot, the chief people officer of Astronomer, has resigned, the company confirmed to CNN Thursday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi6sz4c0008356nej815ruv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The resignation comes after Cabot, who oversaw the organization\u2019s human resources, and Andy Byron, the then-chief executive of the New York-based tech company, were spotted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/19\/business\/andy-byron-astronomer-ceo-resigns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">embracing at a Coldplay concert<\/a> earlier this month.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi6sz4d0009356nqz2b9nw3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Byron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/19\/business\/andy-byron-astronomer-ceo-resigns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">resigned last week<\/a> after being placed on leave, according to an earlier statement shared with CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi6wmnp000k356ndxkrs16x@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The two were seen on a Jumbotron screen \u2013 a so-called \u201ckiss cam\u201d \u2013 at a Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, last week, embracing before separating and ducking out of view.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi6wo2h000n356nqmvgx90r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhoa, look at these two,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/07\/17\/entertainment\/chris-martin-concert-kiss-cam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Coldplay frontman Chris Martin quipped<\/a> at the time. \u201cEither they\u2019re having an affair or they\u2019re just very shy.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi74gc200003b6nsifq4hd3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The video of the two quickly went viral online, along with alleged statements from the ex-CEO acknowledging the situation. Astronomer, however, said on <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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> that Bryon had not put out any statement and \u201creports saying otherwise are all incorrect.\u201d That statement also addressed the misidentification of a third person seen in the viral clip.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi7axl100053b6nri0bufu1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\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 statement also read.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi7mz7r000d3b6nbvphwcrf@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The data operations company, founded in 2018, acknowledged in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/astronomer_as-stated-previously-astronomer-is-committed-activity-7352406400280514560-UBvJ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">separate statement<\/a> that \u201cawareness of our company may have changed overnight,\u201d but its mission would continue to focus on addressing data and artificial intelligence problems.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi7okcl000i3b6naba9ykct@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The company said Astronomer\u2019s co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Pete DeJoy, would serve as interim CEO.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmdi7okcl000j3b6nya9hex2e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Byron\u2019s LinkedIn account is no longer public, and he was removed from the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astronomer.io\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">leadership page<\/a> following the announcement, which now lists co-founder DeJoy as CEO.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Kristin Cabot, the chief people officer of Astronomer, has resigned, the company confirmed to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":90746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-90745","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114912594833434015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90745","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=90745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}