Kiss cam fallout continues: Astronomer CEO put on leave

The company at the center of ColdplayGate has placed its CEO on leave just two days after the kiss cam caught him with his arms around a colleague Astronomer delivered the news about CEO Andy Byron Friday night hours after announcing its board had launched an research into the alleged cheating embarrassment Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy is at this time serving as interim CEO given Andy Byron has been placed on leave the company stated in a LinkedIn post around p m Friday We will share more details as appropriate in the coming days it added This all comes as Astronomer has had all eyes on it after Byron and HR head Kristin Cabot were apparently caught in an embrace on the kiss cam at Coldplay s concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro on Wednesday Astronomer is committed to the values and values that have guided us since our founding the company posted on LinkedIn Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability The Board of Directors has initiated a formal assessment into this matter and we will have additional details to share very shortly the company added Byron and Cabot s alleged romance went viral when a video circulated of lead singer Chris Martin blowing up an alleged affair When the kiss cam went up on the big screen in Foxboro Byron was spotted with his arms around Cabot Oh look at these two Martin reported of the cozy couple Cabot without delay puts her hands over her eyes in apparent shame and turns away while Byron expeditiously drops down to get out of the camera s view The crowd starts developing out in laughter Either they re having an affair or he s very shy Martin noted A woman next to Cabot is seen showing pleasure with her hand on her head People online have been identifying her as another Astronomer employee Alyssa Stoddard VP of HR However the company is refuting that speculation stating Alyssa Stoddard was not at the event and no other employees were in the video the company reported in its message Astronomer says it s probing after CEO Andy Byron HR head Kristin Cabot caught on kiss cam at Coldplay concert This file is auto-generated function d l use strict l querySelector d addEventListener undefined typeof URL d wp d wp d wp receiveEmbedMessage d wp receiveEmbedMessage function e var t e facts if t t secret t message t value a-zA-Z - test t secret for var s r n a l querySelectorAll 'iframe data-secret ' t secret ' ' o l querySelectorAll 'blockquote data-secret ' t secret ' ' c new RegExp https i i i