W. Pitt Turner IV, PE is the Executive Director of Uptime Institute, LLC. Since 1993 he has been a senior consultant and principal for Uptime Institute Professional Services (UIPS), previously known as ComputerSite Engineering, Inc. Uptime Institute includes UIPS, the Institute's Uptime Network, a peer group of 100 data center owners and operators in North America and EMEA, as well as the Uptime Institute Symposium, a major annual international eco-sustainability conference. Uptime Institute is an independent operating unit of The 451 Group.

Before joining the Institute, Pitt was with Pacific Bell for more than twenty years in their corporate real estate group where he held a wide variety of leadership positions in real estate property management, major construction projects, capital project justification, and capital budget management. He has a BS Mechanical Engineering from UC Davis and an MBA with honors in Management from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He is a registered professional engineer in several states. He travels extensively and is a school trained chef. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.