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
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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:…
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:…
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…
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.…
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…
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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