The executive director of Astronomer, Andy Byron, has resigned after the negative reaction that raised the now technological that is not his wife in a concert of the British band Coldplay, the company reported this Saturday.
“Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that they have guided us from our foundation. Our leaders are expected to mark the pattern both in behavior and responsibility, and recently, that pattern was not fulfilled,” Astronomer published in his X account.
Byron, who was temporarily suspended, “presented his resignation and the Board of Directors accepted it,” the statement adds. “The Board will begin the search for our next executive director, while the co -founder and product director, Pete Dejy, continues as an interim CEO,” said the company.
Astronomer, until this week an unknown virtual, reached notoriety after the publication of video networks of the video, in which Byron and the woman who hugs hide from the camera when they realize that they were shown in the popular ‘Kiss-Cam’ or Kissed Chamber, which usually focuses on couples in this type of event.
In the recording, which accumulates millions of reproductions in several social networks, Coldplay singer Chris Martin says before the public: “Oh look at those two: either they are having an adventure or are very shy.” The event has caused hundreds of reactions and memes around the world.
“While the perception of our company may have changed overnight, our product and the work we do for our customers have not done so,” said the company, specializing in data operations, artificial intelligence and development of software.
where he also clarified that the text that circulated a day before, in which Andy Byron supposedly apologized for “a personal error” is false.
