[1] Di Bonaventura spent the 1990s as an executive in the film industry eventually rising to president of worldwide production for Warner Bros. Pictures.

His tenure at Warner Bros. included discovering and shepherding The Matrix into production, as well as purchasing the rights to the Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling.

In 2007, di Bonaventura purchased the film rights to the six-part series of fantasy novels The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott.

Di Bonaventura graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall and Harvard University, where he played soccer.

[7] As of July 2013[update], di Bonaventura lived in Brentwood, Los Angeles with his wife Kimberly and their two sons.