13 things about Ipswich, Massachusetts’ Andrew Cabot

Andrew Lowell Cabot is a resident of Ipswich, Massachusetts, United States and a former resident of Islesboro, Maine, USA. He attended Pingree School in South Hamilton, Massachusetts, Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California, USA and the Harvard Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

BIOGRAPHY

Cabot is an American entrepreneur. He and his first wife Maud Henrichs Cabot have a son and a daughter together.

Aside from Ipswich, Cabot has lived in other parts of Massachusetts including Boston, Chicopee, Concord and Hyannis. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. From 1985 to 1988, he attended the UCLA where he earned his bachelor’s degree in philosophy.
2. From 1994 to 1996, he was a product manager at Mediatrends, Inc.
3. Maud gave birth to their son Henry Cabot in 1995 and to their daughter India Cabot in 1999.
4. He was a product manager and a marketing manager at Cheyenne Software in 1996 and at Computer Associates from 1996 to 1997.
5. From 1998 to 2001, he was an employee of Radview Software.
6. From 2001 to 2003, he was the chief operating officer of Metrix Systems in France.
7. From 2003 to 2006, he was the president of Content Objects in Cambridge.
8. From 2008 to 2009, he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Education where he earned a master’s degree in education.
9. In 2009, he founded Privateer Rum, a distillery in Ipswich.
10. She and Maud separated in 2011 and filed for divorce jointly in 2013.
11. From 2014 to 2018, he was married to Julia Sample Cabot.
12. He married his third wife Kristin Stanek Cabot after she divorced Ken Thornby in 2022.
13. In August 2024, he turned 60.

TIMELINE

Andrew is six generations removed from his ancestor of the same name who inspired the launch of Privateer Rum. Born in 1750, the latter was a merchant, a rum distiller and a privateer during the American Revolution who died in 1791.

1990s

• In May 1994, he joined Mediatrends.
• In June 1996, he held Mediatrends, which was sold in July 1996 to Cheyenne Software, which was sold in October 1996 to Computer Associates.
• In August 1998, he joined Radview Software.

2000s

• In February 2001, he left Radview Software.
• In September 2006, he left Content Objevts.
• In July 2009, he became the chief executive officer and the COO of Privateer Rum.

2010s

• He was featured in a Boston Globe article published on October 11, 2014.

2020s

• In November 2024, his wife Kristin became the chief people officer of Astronomer, a software company based in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
• In February 2025, he and Kristin bought a two-story, four-bedroom New Englander-style house worth $2.2 million in Rye, New Hampshire, USA.
• On July 16, 2025, his wife Kristin and then Astronomer chief executive officer Andy Byron were caught on the jumbotron canoodling at a Coldplay concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
• On August 13, 2025, Kristin filed for divorce against him at a court in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.