Ninad Narkhede, former Head of Cloud Engineering at Visa Inc., joins to lead platform strategy as Tabski processes over $800 million in annual transaction volume
ST. LOUIS, MO / ACCESS Newswire / May 6, 2026 / Payments infrastructure has conquered e-commerce. It has transformed retail. The next frontier is physical commerce, and it remains fundamentally fragmented.
Across hospitality and multi-vendor venue environments, the systems powering transactions, settlement, and financial operations are still built on assumptions that predate modern commerce. Operators often lack real-time visibility into revenue. Reconciliation happens manually across disconnected point-of-sale, property management, and loyalty systems. Failures are often detected only after batch cycles complete. The financial and operational cost of this gap is material and persistent.
Tabski today announced the appointment of Ninad Narkhede as Chief Platform Officer, signaling a shift from solving ordering and payments at the surface layer to building the underlying financial infrastructure required to operate complex, multi-operator environments in real time.
Narkhede brings more than two decades of experience in enterprise technology and infrastructure, including leadership at Visa Inc. from Chief Engineer to Head of Cloud Engineering, where he drove identity modernization, enterprise AI adoption, and large-scale infrastructure across PCI, FFIEC, GDPR, and SOX-regulated environments at Fortune 150 scale. His tenure included technology integration responsibility across Visa’s most significant transactions, spanning 17 acquisitions and carve-outs, including the $2 billion CyberSource acquisition and the $23 billion Visa Europe acquisition.
From inside one of the world’s most complex financial networks, he has seen how large-scale infrastructure behaves under real-world conditions, where systems succeed, and where complexity creates gaps. Venue-based commerce is one of them.
“Many existing restaurant and retail technology platforms were designed for single-operator environments and struggle to support multi-vendor models effectively. Operators have paid the price in lost revenue, manual reconciliation, and lack of real-time visibility. Tabski is building for the actual problem. The next phase of payments infrastructure will be defined by platforms that can unify financial operations across multiple operators in real time. That is the opportunity here.”
– Ninad Narkhede, Chief Platform Officer, Tabski
At the core of Tabski’s platform is a centralized financial ledger designed to unify transaction data across systems and move toward a single, authoritative source of truth. Rather than treating integrations as optional or asynchronous, the platform enforces validation and exception handling at the point of transaction, reducing reconciliation delays and operational risk.
This approach addresses a fundamental limitation in existing systems, where financial visibility is delayed and errors propagate across systems before being detected. In high-volume environments such as resorts, stadiums, and multi-vendor venues, these inefficiencies translate directly into revenue leakage, increased labor costs, and reduced decision velocity.
“Many existing systems in this category were not designed for real-time financial operations. What we are building is not just a better point-of-sale or ordering experience. It is a financial foundation that allows operators to run their business with real-time accuracy and control.”
– Jon Grayem, CEO, Tabski
Tabski today processes more than $800 million in annual transaction volume across complex multi-vendor environments in the United States. The market itself is accelerating, with hundreds of new multi-vendor venue projects in development across the country and no shortage of operators still running on infrastructure that was never built for them.
Tabski is targeting complex, high-volume hospitality environments where real-time financial accuracy, compliance, and operational control are critical. These environments have historically been difficult to serve effectively with existing payment and platform solutions, creating a significant opportunity for a new class of infrastructure.
The roadmap includes real-time settlement capabilities and deeper financial orchestration, positioning the platform as a foundational layer for next-generation commerce infrastructure.
About Tabski
Tabski is a payments and commerce platform designed for multi-vendor environments, enabling seamless ordering, payments, and financial operations across complex merchant ecosystems. The company focuses on building real-time infrastructure that unifies transaction, settlement, and reconciliation workflows into a single operational layer. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Tabski is building the financial infrastructure layer for the next generation of physical commerce. Learn more at http://www.tabski.com.
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