Husband of HR chief in Coldplay KissCam incident attended concert with date, new details show
New disclosures say the couple had separated, and the husband was there with his own date; the kiss-cam moment involved the Astronomer CEO and Kristin Cabot, prompting leadership resignations.
New details about the KissCam moment at a Coldplay concert have emerged, centering on Andrew Cabot, the husband of Kristin Cabot. The two had been married for two years but had separated in the weeks leading up to the show, and Andrew Cabot attended the event with a date, according to sources familiar with the matter, including reporting in The Times of London.
Footage from the KissCam moment showed Kristin Cabot in a box with colleagues embracing Astronomer CEO Andy Byron. The moment drew immediate attention, prompting Coldplay frontman Chris Martin to comment, 'Either they're having an affair or they're very shy.' When the image of the two executives on the screen flashed, Byron reportedly muttered, 'it's me' as he recognized the moment.
Andrew Cabot told People magazine that he and Kristin were privately and amicably separated several weeks before the concert; the divorce filing became public in the days that followed. Andrew, the CEO of Privateer Rum, said the couple had already begun the process and were focused on the privacy and well-being of their two children as the case progressed.
In the same period, Kristin Cabot’s husband, Andrew’s life outside the marriage, was displaced into the public eye as details emerged about the fragile state of affairs. Andrew and Kristin had been living apart for several weeks prior to the event, and people close to the family describe the separation as amicable. The couple shared a waterfront home in Rye, New Hampshire valued at about $2.2 million and were raising two children while pursuing ongoing divorce proceedings.
The kiss-cam incident also reverberated within Astronomer. Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan, a 50-year-old mother of two, moved out of the family home and returned her wedding ring in the days following the incident. She deleted Byron’s name from her Facebook page before eventually removing the account altogether. Astronomer moved Byron and Cabot onto leave and, shortly thereafter, both executives resigned. In a company statement, Astronomer framed the episode as a disruption to leadership rather than to its core business, noting that the company remained a pioneer in DataOps and that its products and customer work would continue.
The timeline laid out by The Times of London and corroborated by other outlets shows that the separation had been underway for weeks before the concert. The reporting emphasizes that Cabot’s decision to duck out of camera focus during the kiss-cam moment was not framed as a betrayal of trust by colleagues but as an inappropriate moment in a professional setting. One source described Cabot and Byron as having a strong friendship rather than a working romance, and they said the two had no professional overlap beyond that friendship.
The fallout from the incident quickly rippled through both organizations. Astronomer stressed that the actions of its executives did not reflect a broader pattern of behavior among staff and that the company remained committed to its data-management mission. Yet the public spectacle and the ensuing leadership changes cast a shadow over the once-prominent branding of both companies in the data analytics space. As divorce proceedings progressed publicly, the families involved sought privacy and stability for their children while the corporate entities faced questions about governance, optics, and the management of personal issues in high-profile roles.