Griffin Trygg
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Griffin Trygg

Chief of Staff at Apparent Capital. Co-founder of OnPlane. West Hartford, CT.

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Experience

Avon, CT

Chief of Staff, Apparent Capital

Real estate investment firm investing in public REITs, multifamily, industrial, and private credit.

  • Deal team member on a preferred equity partnership with Base Equities: pipeline, partner calls across multifamily, industrial, and outdoor storage, and quarterly reporting on its four investments.
  • Underwrite deals from sourcing through diligence: market research, lease comps, debt structuring, capex, waterfall returns, IRR sensitivities, CIMs and IC decks.
  • Closing workstreams: PSA review, critical-dates abstracts, lease summaries; building a repeatable term-sheet-to-close process for preferred equity deals.
  • Built Apparent Legal, a retrieval system over the firm's deal documents that surfaces precedent clauses with citations; ran first-pass legal review on a $29M acquisition.
  • Built the Corridor portfolio dashboard and property hub: monthly reports for 18 properties assembled into a live view of occupancy, capital, cash, and delinquency, cutting weekly review prep from an hour to minutes.
  • Built an Excel add-in that drafts investment memos from underwriting models, and automated weekly rent comp surveys across five markets.
  • Lead firm-wide AI adoption: internal training platform and curriculum; Claude integrated with Altrio, Green Street, AppFolio, Microsoft 365, and Granola.

Fairfield County, CT

Co-Founder & Chief Development Officer, OnPlane LLC

  • Co-founded OnPlane, a live multi-tenant platform for running golf club caddie programs, with apps for caddie masters, caddies, golfers, guests, and club pros and committees.
  • Lead product and engineering: Next.js, Postgres/Drizzle, Clerk-based club tenancy across five roles, Cloudflare R2 media, offline-first caddie tools, and a test environment with a full-season simulator.
  • Designed the Claude features: an offline-capable club assistant, document scanning with drafted send-backs, scorecard reading from photos, and a personal coach and game plan from each golfer's data.
  • Shipped course mapping from OpenStreetMap and USGS imagery, live hole-by-hole round tracking, privacy-protected scoring insights, and per-club AI spend caps and rate limits.

Hartford County, CT

Franchise Owner-Operator, GrillRenewCT

  • Launched and operate a residential grill cleaning and restoration territory; 40+ jobs in the first six weeks.
  • Hired and manage four technicians; set up automated lead intake, AI chat and call agents, invoicing, and zone-based scheduling.

Education

Lewiston, ME

Bates College

B.A., Econometric & Quantitative Economics and Computational Studies

  • GPA 3.5 / 4.0. Coursework: statistics, econometrics, micro and macro theory, Python, R, Stata, business law.
  • Varsity swimming on a top-8 nationally ranked program, 20+ hours a week.
  • Senior thesis on NYC arts funding and student achievement, advised by Prof. Sam Bird (December 2024).
  • Read the thesis summary

Hanover, NH

Tuck Bridge Program, Dartmouth College

Accounting, corporate finance, modeling, and strategy

  • Capstone on Constellation Brands, presented to industry experts.

Stockholm, Sweden

Stockholm School of Economics

Study abroad

  • International economics, economics of the European Union, foreign exchange.