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 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

• 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: 19^TH 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: 3^rd AEM and TIM PHD Programs-Joint Paper Development Online Workshop, Bergamo on May 25-26, 2020.