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
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…
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 n8n (self-hosted), make, and Zapier, the trial…
AI VC Benchmark: 16 AI Agents on Client Identification
Client identification is part of commercial due diligence. We tested 16 models on client-list research for three research and review sites, one of them AIMultiple, scoring their submissions against answer keys we compiled and the pages they cited. We did not set reasoning effort for any model. Each ran at its agent program’s default, and…
Top 12+ Data as a Service Companies
Data as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud model that delivers data on demand, usually on a subscription. It lets a business buy the datasets it needs without collecting and storing the data itself. See the top data as a service companies and data types they provide, the key features such as data analytics, and…
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 solutions. Click the links to understand the rationale behind each selection: See the top multi-vendor &…
Top 12 RPA Software & Their Features
Based on our experience with RPA software during our RPA benchmark as well as external market presence metrics like number of reviews and employees, we selected the leading and emerging RPA providers. Below is a summary of the availability of on-premises deployment and built-in process mining features across the top 12 RPA software solutions. Built-in…
Top 25+ Synthetic Data Use Cases
Synthetic data is gaining widespread popularity and applicability across industries, including machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI (GenAI). Synthetic data offers solutions to challenges such as data privacy concerns and limited dataset sizes. It is estimated that synthetic data will be preferred over real data in AI models by 2030.33 We listed the capabilities…
OpenClaw Alternatives: Hermes vs ZeroClaw vs Grok Bot
Autonomous AI agents, such as OpenClaw and Hermes agent, automate multi-step tasks that would normally require constant human input. While OpenClaw has become the most widely adopted always-on autonomous agent, many users are seeking alternatives due to its challenging deployment process and complex configuration requirements. We provide 5 leading OpenClaw alternatives, highlighting their key capabilities…
AI-Based Stock Trading: Which Gen AI Tool Is Better
LLM tools have been used in AI-based stock trading since their emergence.48 I tested 20 generative AI models on a single, hard forecasting task: predict the 3-day cumulative abnormal return (CAR) of 132 stocks after an unexpected event, using only the firm-level information supplied in the prompt. For further details on the benchmark, read the…
Top 10 Microsoft Purview Alternatives
Though Microsoft Purview is a popular DLP software, it can be hard to use and provides limited policy customization options. We analyzed the top 10 DLP products across five dimensions to identify the top Microsoft Purview alternatives. See their features, strengths, and weaknesses: * Based on the total number of reviews and average ratings (on…
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