Tata Group, on Tuesday appointed Dr. Randhir Thakur, as the CEO and managing director of Tata Electronics Pvt Ltd (TEPL), as the group has drawn a strategy to strengthen its semiconductor manufacturing capabilities in an attempt to gain an edge over rivals in the country's thriving precision machining business.

• Thakur is an electronics and telecommunications engineer from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra. He has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Oklahoma. 
• Thakur was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2013. He holds more than 300 patents in the semiconductor field.