Ezgi Arslan, PhD.
Ezgi is an industry analyst at AIMultiple.
Research focus at AIMultiple
- AI agent applications in finance where she combines her finance expertise with emerging AI tools.
- Sustainability where she relies on her academic research background.
- Procurement technologies where she bases upon her experience in finance.
- Surveys and sentiment analysis for user insights where she rests on her academic experience.
- Network security, including firewalls, firewall management, and orchestration where she applies her industry analysis experience.
Professional experience
Ezgi worked both in academia and the industry before:- Çankaya University as Part-time Teaching Staff
- TED Ankara College as Education Support Specialist
- TED University as Teaching Assistant
- AKFEN Holding Inc. as Finance Specialist
Education
Graduated with a PhD. from the Department of Business and Administration at Bilkent University.
Academic publications
- Arslan ETanyeri-Günsür B. (2025). Ambitious sons and understanding daughters: investor perceptions of gender and the valuation of family firms". Gender in Management: An International Journal, 1-22, DOI: 10.1108/GM-11-2024-0636.
- Alp, E. (2024). An Examination of Factors in Financial Asset Valuation. Nişantaşı Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 12 (Special Issue), 60-72. DOI: 52122/nisantasisbd.1467788.
- Tanyeri A. B., and Alp E. (2023). Law as an external governance mechanism: valuation of family firms in countries with differing judicial protection of shareholder rights. Corporate Governance: An International Review, 1-22, DOI: 10.1111/corg.12484.
Conference presentations
- Alp, E. (2023) Impact of the Corporate Sustainability Performance on Financial Performance and the Institutional Shift Amidst Covid-19 Pandemic: Evidence from Türkiye. In: ICGS 2023 CGIR Junior Scholar Consortium and Paper Development Workshop – held in Madrid, Spain on October 20, 2023.
- Alp, E. (2023) The Effect of Corporate Sustainability Activities of Financial Performance. In: 1. Conference of Economics and Society – held in Ankara, Türkiye on December 6-7, 2023.
- Alp, E. (2022) Shareholder activism, and organizational form. In: 19TH EIASM Workshop on Corporate Governance – held in Strasbourg, France on November 8-9, 2022.
- Alp, E., and Tanyeri A. B. (2021). Gender perceptions of investors and the valuation of family firms. In: RENT 2021 Conference – XXXV Research in Entrepreneurship Conference – held in Turku, Finland on November (17) 18-19, 2021.
- Alp, E. (2020). Value of Shareholder Voting Rights and Family Firm Related Mechanisms. In: 3rd AEM and TIM PHD Programs-Joint Paper Development Online Workshop, Bergamo on May 25-26, 2020.
Latest Articles from Ezgi
Top 10 Open Source Sentiment Analysis Tools
Sentiment analysis has gained worldwide momentum as one of the text analytics applications. Businesses that have not implemented sentiment analysis may feel an urge to find out the best tools and use cases for benefiting from this technology. Explore the top open source sentiment analysis tools and no-code solutions for businesses looking to pilot sentiment…
Top Firewall Management Tools: Analysis & Comparison
As the CISO of an enterprise managing firewalls from multiple vendors, I have seen that a unified firewall management tool is essential to streamline configuration & ensure compliance, and reduce the complexity & workload. I have compiled the top 5 solutions. Click the links to understand the rationale behind each selection: See the top multi-vendor…
Top 30+ Agentic AI Companies
Though AI agents are being hyped and some companies rebrand their chatbots as agentic tools, there are still a few agents in production. Previously, we benchmarked several capable AI agents over several real-world tasks. We listed: These companies primarily focus on agentic AI research and development, offering initiatives like ethical AI guidelines and environments for…
AI Agent Traps: 20 Real-Life Incidents
AI agent adoption has outpaced AI agent security: 82% of enterprises now deploy agents, but 44% have policies to secure them,25 and one in five organizations has already experienced an agent-related breach.36 We analyzed 20 real-world security incidents and found that behavioral control and systemic traps (not prompt injection) now drive the majority of critical…
Agentic AI Finance Benchmark: FinRobot vs FinRL vs FinGPT
79% of executives report that their companies have started adopting AI agents, yet 34% are currently using them in accounting and finance.58 We conduct a benchmark on 3 agentic AI finance tools tailored for financial workflows. Results suggest that We present benchmark results alongside use cases and implementation challenges. The findings highlight several important patterns:…
Low/No-Code AI Agent Builders: n8n,make, Zapier
We spent three days configuring low- and no-code AI agent builders, AI-agent workflows, manually setting up LLM actions, document parsers, search tools, and building pipelines with triggers, conditional steps, tool calls, and webhooks to compare how each system handles multi-step agent automation. We used the free tiers of popular low/no-code AI agent builders, including Creatio…
Test Automation Documentation with Best Practices
Test automation is vital for ensuring the quality and reliability of applications in software testing and development. Businesses and QA teams are transitioning from manual testing to automation testing as it can: What often goes overlooked is the role of effective documentation in maximizing the benefits of test automation. We explore the importance of test…
Ninjaone Review: 15 Capabilities for Enterprise IT
NinjaOne serves IT units in 40,000 businesses. Its platform includes endpoint control, monitoring, security, backup, and service operations. NinjaOne has market-leading performance on patch management and RMM. Each section explains our experience with NinjaOne and its performance: Endpoint management tools help IT teams control, monitor, and update all devices (Windows, macOS, Linux) from one system.…
Google Workspace Backup: NinjaOne vs Acronis vs IONOS
We tested five major SaaS backup solutions, Acronis, NinjaOne, IONOS, ManageEngine, and CloudAlly, to evaluate their performance, features, and usability for Google Workspace email backups. Our benchmark measured backup speeds, restore times, setup ease, and practical functionality across 21 active mailboxes containing over 90,000 emails. Note: Figures in seconds. To ensure a fair comparison, the…
Top 7 SaaS Backup Solutions
Many businesses operate under the misconception that their SaaS providers (like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) fully protect their data from all threats. While these platforms offer some level of data redundancy, they do not protect against accidental deletion, ransomware, or insider threats. SaaS backup solutions address these issues. We analyzed the top 7 SaaS…
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