Christopher (Chris) di Bonaventura retired from Fidelity Investments in 2020 after a long career in the financial services industry. Most recently at Fidelity Chris was Executive Vice President managing an investment team supporting the largest clients of Fidelity Family Office Services, and prior to that oversaw all of the firm’s family office client relationships. Before joining Fidelity in 2009, Chris was Managing Director in Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management unit, joining the business briefly after the Citigroup/Morgan Stanley wealth management joint venture was consummated. Chris was Managing Director in, and then led, the Citi Family Office group at Citigroup until he joined Morgan Stanley. 

Chris began his financial services career as a CPA on the audit staff of Coopers & Lybrand and after business school joined the investment banking staff of Smith Barney Harris Upham & Company in its Public Finance Division in 1984. Subsequently, he was a coverage investment banker for corporate energy and power clients of the firm, and then in 2000 Chris joined Smith Barney’s Private Wealth Management business, where he worked to support the businesses of Smith Barney’s largest financial advisors who were focused on the wealthiest clients of the firm. 

Chris serves on the Advisory Council for the Yale School of the Environment, the Yale School of Music Advisory Board, the Yale University Library Council and is a member of Yale Partners, the alumni group focused on the current Yale capital campaign. He is also currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the New England Forestry Foundation, where he is in the middle of his first of two three -year terms. 

Chris is an Honorary Life Trustee of the North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System on Long Island. While serving on that board in the 1990s, Chris was Chair of the Strategic Planning Committee and a member of the Finance and Executive Committees during the early stages of North Shore’s transformation into a regional teaching hospital system. Finally, Chris served for six years on the advisory board of Playworks New England. 

Chris is a graduate of Yale College, where he received a B.A. in Psychology, and of New York University’s Stern School of Business where he received his M.B.A. in Finance. Hoping to enjoy them more in the years to come, Chris’s hobbies include upland bird hunting, clay target shooting, fly fishing, and golf. 

His most important focus, however, is his family. Chris and his wife, Ellen, have three daughters, three granddaughters (with another on the way) and two grandsons.