Pete DeJoy took over following former CEO Andy Byron’s resignation after he was captured on a “kiss cam” with a fellow Astronomer employee, who is not his wife, at a Coldplay concert.

Kristin Cabot, Astronomer's chief people officer, and CEO Andy Byron are on leave after a viral video showed them in an intimate embrace at a Coldplay

Astronomer's Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot were in for a rude shock when the kiss cam at the Boston Coldplay concert turned on them, showing them cozying up. Byron, who was then CEO, and Cabot, the company's HR head, immediately broke off the hug, sparking rumours that the two were having an affair.

The tech tycoon and his head-of-HR mistress whose affair was exposed on a “kiss camera” at a Coldplay concert both appeared to be living the American dream before the cheating scandal torpedoed