A life split in two: The CEO parenting from afar

Bupa Global Africa Managing Director, Kenya CEO and Principal Officer Uditha Jayaratne during an interview at his Nairobi office on June 9, 2026. 

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In life, you wish to see what is coming to you, which has nothing to do with where you were going. So when death stole up on Mohammed, Uditha “Ujay” Jayaratne’s longtime buddy, it hit him hard. “I see it as a sacrifice he made to teach me a lesson,” Ujay says. “I was still invincible.”

Having eaten the fruit of knowledge, the CEO of Bupa Global Kenya had come to believe certain truths. Effort equals outcome. Hope is not a strategy. Cuddles from your daughter may be free, which is precisely why they are priceless. He is a daughter’s dad, and where life undoes his seams, she sews him back together. He misses being on the saddle, hitting the road, because life is what you make it, and he intends to make it one hell of a ride.

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