Andy Byron (Astronomer)

Some Lesser Known Facts About Andy Byron

• Andy Byron was interested in technology since his childhood, and later worked in the enterprise software and tech sales sector for two decades.

• From 2004 to 2006, he worked as Eastern Regional Manager at VeriCenter, a company involved in IT infrastructure and hosting services.

• From 2006 to 2008, Byron was Area Vice President of Sales at BladeLogic, which was later acquired by BMC Software.

• Between 2008 and 2009, he served as Vice President of Sales for Central and Eastern Europe at BMC Software.

• From 2009 to 2011, he became Vice President of Sales for the U.S. and Canada at BMC Software, a global IT firm.

• Between 2011 and 2014, he worked at Aveksa as Vice President of Worldwide Sales before it was acquired by RSA Security.

• He joined Fuze (formerly ThinkingPhones) in 2014 as Chief Revenue Officer and later served as President and COO until 2016.

• From 2017 to 2019, Byron was Chief Revenue Officer at Cybereason, a cybersecurity firm based in the Boston area.

• In 2019, he briefly worked at Charles River Ventures (CRV) as an Executive in Residence (EIR), a venture capital advisory role.

• Since 2019, Byron has worked as President at Lacework, a cloud security platform based in Mountain View, California.

• He later took on the role of CEO at Astronomer, a data infrastructure startup that achieved unicorn status in 2022.

• In 2024, Astronomer hired Kristin Cabot as Chief People Officer; Byron praised her leadership in a formal press release.

• In July 2025, a video from a Coldplay concert in Foxborough showed a man and woman looking uncomfortable on a kiss cam.

• Coldplay’s Chris Martin commented on them live, wondering aloud if they were “just very shy” or “having an affair.” The video went viral on social media as ColdPlayGate, and many speculated that the couple was Andy Byron and Kristin Cabot.

  

• A photo circulated online showed Byron hugging a woman from behind. Both appeared visibly tense or surprised in the image.

• An apology statement went viral on social media, but Astronomer claimed it was unofficial and might be fake.

• Reportedly, Byron’s wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, deleted her Facebook account, which had family photos.

  

• Property records show that Andy and Megan Byron co-own a home in Massachusetts valued at over $1 million through a trust.