Andy Byron Biography – Andy Byron Wiki

Andy Byron is the Chief Executive Officer of Astronomer, a data orchestration company worth more than £1.2 billion. He joined Astronomer in July 2023. He was the third to hold the position in 2023. He succeeded Scott Yara, a managing director at Palo Alto-based Sutter Hill Ventures, and previously, Joe Otto, who ran the company from 2018 until January 2023.

Byron spent several months prior learning about Astronomer as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill, an Astronomer backer. The tech executive said he saw huge opportunity at Astronomer – despite the company making two rounds of layoffs in January and April, respectively. Prior to the cuts, Astronomer had achieved rare unicorn status for a Cincinnati startup. It’s raised nearly $290 million in venture funding, including a $213 million Series C in March 2022.

Prior, he had served as the president at San Jose-based cybersecurity startup Lacework, another Sutter Hill portfolio company. It last raised a $1.3 billion funding round in 2021. He also served as Chief Revenue Officer at Cybereason from January 2017 to March 2019.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Byron worked at Fuze, formerly ThinkingPhones, as President and Chief Operating Officer from September 2015 to December 2016, as well as Chief Revenue Officer from June 2014 to August 2015. He was also the Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Aveksa, which was acquired by RSA Security – a Division of EMC, from January 2011 to May 2014. He had stints at BMC Software, BladeLogic, and VeriCenter.

He is a graduate of Providence College, a Catholic, Dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education in Providence, R.I.

Andy Byron Age

Tech executive Andy Byron was born in 1982.

Andy Byron Wife

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron is married to Megan Kerrigan Byron.

Andy Byron Family

Andy Byron and his wife, Megan Kerrigan Byron, have two children. The family resides in New York, NY.

Affair

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron and CPO Kristin Cabot had their alleged affair accidentally exposed on a big screen during a Coldplay concert in Boston, Massachusetts. As a “kiss cam” camera panned onto married Byron and his HR chief Kristin Cabot, Coldplay’s Chris Martin said: “Oh look at these two.”

Byron – who had his arms wrapped around Cabot – swiftly let go of his grip and dived behind the barrier out of view as his shocked alleged lover hid her blushing face with her hands. The crowd laughed as Viva la Vida singer Martin quipped: “Oh what… either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy.”

Andy Byron Net Worth

Andy Byron has an estimated net worth of $10 million. He is the CEO of Astronomer, a data orchestration company with a valuation of about $1.2 billion based on its Series D funding round in May 2025.