Colleen Cutcliffe, PhD
Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Pendulum
Colleen Cutcliffe has more than 20 years of experience leading and managing biology teams in academia, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. Prior to starting Pendulum, Colleen was the senior manager of biology at Pacific Biosciences and a scientist at Elan Pharmaceuticals. Colleen completed her postdoctoral studies at Northwestern’s Children’s Memorial Hospital. Colleen received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Johns Hopkins University and her B.A. in Biochemistry from Wellesley College.
Orville Kolterman, MD
Chief Medical Officer at Pendulum
Orville Kolterman has been the Chief Medical Officer at Pendulum since its launch. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Orville has held a successful and distinguished 40 year medical career. During his 20 year tenure at Amylin, Orville served as the Chief Medical Officer, creating two of the most successful drugs, SYMLIN and BYETTA, which are among the most widely used diabetes drugs today. Before Amylin, Orville was the Program Director of the General Clinical Research Center and Medical Director of the Diabetes Center at the University of California Medical Center. Following graduation from the University of Kansas with a B.A. degree, Orville received a medical degree from Stanford University. He then completed his medical internship and residency at the University of Chicago prior to returning to Stanford for specialty training in Endocrinology and Metabolism.