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Ezgi Arslan, PhD.

Ezgi Arslan, PhD.

Industry Analyst
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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 E. and Tanyeri-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

Latest Articles from Ezgi

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Aug 28

Analysis of Top 5 Firewall Change Management Software

As the Chief Technology Officer (CISO) of a rapidly-growing organization, I oversee a growing network footprint. To manage the risks associated with firewall configuration changes, I reviewed the leading firewall change management software: Feature comparison Features summary: Customized reporting: Generates tailored data visualizations and compliance audits based on specific security metrics and organizational needs. It…

Cybersecurity
Open World Evaluation
Aug 28

Top 10+ PAM Solutions with Free Alternatives

We spent three days testing and reviewing popular Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions. We used the free trials and admin consoles of BeyondTrust, Keeper PAM, and ManageEngine PAM360. For solutions that required registration, we relied on official product documentation and verified user experiences to assess their capabilities. Based on our hands-on experience and information from…

Agentic AI
Benchmark
Aug 27

AI VC Benchmark: 14 AI Agents on Client Identification

Commercial due diligence starts by working out who pays the target. We tested 14 models on that question, each asked to build a client list for three real companies and scored against an answer key our analyst compiled by hand. Reasoning effort was not set for any model. Each ran at its agent program’s default,…

Agentic AI
Open World Evaluation
Aug 27

Building Personal AI Agents + 18 Agent Platforms and Tools

We spent two days experimenting with real-world demos and tools to build personal AI assistants that can handle your tasks, such as scheduling meetings, managing notes, or sorting through emails. We will dive into three main approaches to building and using personal AI assistants, with real-world examples for each: No-code automation tools, such as n8n,…

Agentic AI
Benchmark
Aug 27

Top 15+ AI Financial Research Platforms for Investors

Despite thousands of available financial research tools, many investors struggle with fragmented data, time-consuming manual analysis, and limited predictive insights. AI financial research platforms use natural language processing and advanced analytics to cut research time from hours to minutes. See the top AI financial research solutions with their main services, prices and use-cases: Our experience:…

AI
Benchmark
Aug 27

Top 15 AI Excel Tools Benchmarked

79% of companies claim to have adopted AI agents, and two-thirds of those users say these agents have boosted productivity in measurable ways.54 We test and compare 15 AI Excel tools to see how they handle real spreadsheet work. We ran two benchmarks. Quadratic and GPT for Excel scored the highest. Summary of other results:…

Agentic AI
Open World Evaluation
Aug 27

AI Agent Tools: Comparison of 15 Platforms

An AI agent reads context, picks a tool, acts, and checks the result before choosing the next step. That loop separates an agent from a chatbot. Agents work as co-pilots: they research, draft, and execute, and a person approves anything consequential. The 15 tools below cover four categories: coding agents, enterprise agent platforms, customer service…

Agentic AI
Insight
Aug 27

Building a No-Code AI Lead Generation Workflow

AI sales agents promise automated prospecting and outreach, but most are bundled as full sales engagement platforms costing significantly once onboarding, data enrichment, integrations, and premium support are added. After reviewing leading AI SDR and lead generation tools and building hands-on workflows, I found that many teams need something simpler, more flexible, and more cost-effective.…

Enterprise Software
Open World Evaluation
Aug 27

RPA for Mac: 12+ RPA tools That Can Run on Mac

Most RPA tools were built for Windows, since Windows runs the majority of enterprise desktops. Macs have gained ground. They now make up over 15% of desktop operating systems worldwide and more than 24% in the U.S.89 That shift pushed vendors to support macOS. See the following sections for more information: We have curated a…

Cybersecurity
Benchmark
Aug 27

WAF Solutions: Benchmark-Based Comparison

With two decades of industry experience and market data showing that nearly half of breaches begin with web applications, we manually tested three leading WAFs (Cloudflare, Imperva, Barracuda) against real attack traffic by creating a test site and targeting it with common web threats, broken access control, injection, and vulnerable and outdated components. See a…

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