September 30, 2025

A Willing Ambassador

Proud alumnus Rohan Small has a sense of responsibility to UT and its students

Header RohanSmall — “In some organizations, you feel like you are just a number,” says Rohan Small, shown here with McCombs Dean Lillian Mills (center) and Brittany Small. “What we have at UT — a family feeling and a close connection — is special.”

Rohan Small, B.A. and BBA ’91, grew up in the Cayman Islands, about 450 miles south of Florida. As the eldest of four boys, he was sometimes left in charge of his younger siblings. On those occasions, his mother had a hard rule: If she returned home to discover something had gone wrong in the household, it would be Rohan’s fault. “It was a very effective system,” Rohan recalls with a laugh, “because I had to make sure my brothers behaved.”

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