Diego Tavecchia Director of Operations, ASSIFACT Diego Tavecchia is Director of Operations at ASSIFACT, the Italian Factoring Association, and Chair of the Prudential Risk Committee (PRC) of the European Federation for the Factoring and Commercial Finance Industry (EUF). Before joining Assifact in 2007, he graduated in International Economics and Finance from the University of Milan, where he also obtained his PhD in Business History and Corporate Finance with a dissertation about the effects of factoring on Italian businesses. He has more than 10 years of experience as a lecturer in courses about factoring and risk management. At the EUF, he established and chaired the Economics and Statistics Committee for several years before taking the lead of the PRC.