The CEO caught along with his arms round a colleague on the kiss cam on the Coldplay live performance at Gillette Stadium has resigned, shortly after the corporate positioned him on go away.
Astronomer has introduced its Board of Administrators has accepted Andy Byron’s resignation, prompting the start of the corporate’s impromptu seek for its subsequent chief government officer.
“As stated previously, Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding,” the corporate said in a LinkedIn submit Saturday afternoon. “Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met.”
“Andy Byron has tendered his resignation,” the submit continued, “and the Board of Administrators has accepted. The Board will start a seek for our subsequent Chief Government as Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to function interim CEO.
It has been a whirlwind previous few days for the New York Metropolis-based software program growth firm. Byron’s resignation comes after its board positioned the CEO on go away Friday afternoon, hours after it introduced it had begun an investigation into his conduct.
The flurry of motion was spurred when Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot had been caught cuddling on the kiss cam at Coldplay’s live performance in Foxboro on Wednesday.
Byron and Cabot’s alleged romance went mega viral when a video circulated of lead singer Chris Martin blowing up an alleged “affair.”
When the “kiss cam” went up on the massive display screen on the live performance, Byron was noticed along with his arms round Cabot. “Oh, look at these two,” Martin mentioned of the comfy couple.
Cabot instantly places her arms over her eyes in obvious disgrace and turns away, whereas Byron shortly drops all the way down to get out of the digital camera’s view.
The group begins breaking out in laughter.
“Either they’re having an affair or he’s very shy,” Martin mentioned.
A girl subsequent to Cabot is seen smiling along with her hand on her head. Folks on-line have been figuring out her as one other Astronomer worker — Alyssa Stoddard, VP of HR. However Astronomer debunked that rumor on Friday, saying the worker was not there.
Astronomer achieved so-called “unicorn status” in 2022, with a valuation of $1 billion or extra.
“Before this week, we were known as a pioneer in the DataOps space,” the corporate said in its Saturday afternoon submit, “helping data teams power everything from modern analytics to production AI.”
“While awareness of our company may have changed overnight, our product and our work for our customers have not,” it continued. “We’re continuing to do what we do best: helping our customers with their toughest data and AI problems.”
Charlsie Niemic, whose LinkedIn account lists her as a inventive content material advertising supervisor from Atlanta, reacted to Byron’s resignation, saying she believes the dishonest scandal has “hit the internet so hard (because) it’s not just a scandal. It’s a mirror.”
“We’ve all seen this play out at work,” Niemic wrote in a submit, “maybe not with a viral TikTok breakdown, but definitely behind closed doors and in HR’s inbox.”
“Andy Byron (CEO) + Kristin Cabot (Chief People Officer) = a collision of power, proximity, and performative policy,” she added. “And let’s be so for real: most of us have been impacted by this exact dynamic.”
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