Woman caught in Coldplay ‘Kiss Cam' embrace resigns from tech company

San Francisco Chronicle​

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A senior human resources executive at a New York-based tech firm has stepped down after a moment of unintentional viral fame at a Coldplay concert exposed her in a compromising embrace with the company's CEO.
Kristin Cabot, formerly chief people officer at Astronomer, resigned this week following the abrupt departure of CEO Andy Byron, who had quit after initially being placed on leave.
The resignations come in the wake of a July 16 Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in the Boston suburb of Foxborough, where the pair were unexpectedly caught on the venue's kiss cam.
'Kristin Cabot is no longer with Astronomer, she has resigned,' company spokesperson Taylor Jones confirmed in a brief statement.
The footage, now widely shared online, shows Byron and Cabot smiling and leaning into one another before reacting in panic upon seeing themselves on the Jumbotron. Cabot recoils, hands to her face, while Byron ducks out of the frame.
'Either they're having an affair or they're just very shy,' Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, narrating the moment, quipped.
Astronomer soon confirmed their identities and launched an internal investigation. Their profiles were quietly removed from the company website, along with a news release announcing Cabot's hiring.
While the episode marked a corporate scandal for Astronomer, it had an unexpected upside for Coldplay; the band's streaming numbers jumped by 25% in the days following the incident, according to Luminate.
'While I would never have wished for it to happen like this,' interim CEO Pete DeJoy reflected in a LinkedIn post, 'Astronomer is now a household name.'