Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after viral Coldplay kiss-cam controversy

Astronomer, the exertion institution that faced backlash aft its CEO was allegedly caught successful an matter astatine a Coldplay concert, said the CEO has resigned, the institution announced Saturday.

"Andy Byron has tendered his resignation, and the Board of Directors has accepted," the institution said successful a statement. "The Board volition statesman a hunt for our adjacent Chief Executive arsenic Cofounder and Chief Product Officer Pete DeJoy continues to service arsenic interim CEO."

Byron was shown connected a large surface astatine a Coldplay performance connected Wednesday with his arms astir the company's main radical officer, Kristin Cabot. Byron, who is joined with children, instantly hid erstwhile the mates was shown connected screen. Lead vocalist Chris Martin said, "Either they're having an matter oregon they're conscionable precise shy." A performance attendee's video of the matter went viral.

In May, Astronomer announced a $93 cardinal concern circular led by Bain Ventures and different investors, including Salesforce Ventures.

Byron's resignation comes aft Astronomer said Friday that it had launched a "formal investigation" into the matter, and the CEO was placed connected administrative leave.

"Before this week, we were known arsenic a pioneer successful the DataOps space, helping information teams powerfulness everything from modern analytics to accumulation AI," the institution said successful its Saturday statement. "Our leaders are expected to acceptable the modular successful some behaviour and accountability, and recently, that modular was not met."