Tia Robinson is the CEO & Founder of Vertical Activewear, a vertically-integrated brand and manufacturer that sustainably makes apparel on-demand.

Tia launched Vertical Activewear as a way to take the waste out of manufacturing, not only by creating a sustainable apparel brand but by also incorporating a sustainable supply chain in-house which opened in 2023. The brand and its sustainability message has been featured in publications such as Essence, Shape, and New York Magazine, and was a recipient of Beyonce’s 2020 NAACP and BeyGood Foundation Grant and the third place winner in Black Enterprise Magazine’s 2024 Disruptor Summit Pitch Competition.

Since launching, the Yonkers, New York native has had the opportunity to use her over 15 years of marketing, merchandising, and wellness experience to encourage mindfulness and intentionality in the fashion industry by offering both DT2 services and B2B solutions that lessen environmental impact and social damage.

In addition to being a CEO & Founder, Tia is a certified meditation instructor and coach with over 450 hours of mindfulness, restorative, and meditation training. She is a graduate of the Village Market’s ELEVATE program, the New Voice’s P.A.C.E. Program with Babson College’s Center for Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership, the City of Atlanta Women (WEI) Cohort 4, a GeorgiaTech ATDC Portfolio Company, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Telecommunications from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland.