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 Vulnerability with 192 Real-life Incidents
Understanding how AI agent vulnerability makes systems fail, whether through security exploits, guardrail breakdowns, or data exposure, has become critical as these systems take on increasingly autonomous roles in business workflows. To map the real-world risk landscape of AI agents, we reviewed 192 documented vulnerability incidents spanning March 2016 to May 2026, drawing on sources.…
AI Agent Sprawl Signs & Checklist to Manage Sprawl
Nearly 80% of organizations have deployed agentic AI. Yet only 21% have a mature governance model for these systems. The gap shows up in practice as agent sprawl, a buildup of redundant, ungoverned, and conflicting AI agents across the business. 40% of agentic AI projects is estimated to fail by 2027 due to weak governance…
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…
Top 14 Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDPS/IPS) Tools
At its core, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS) monitor networks for threats, alert administrators, and prevent potential attacks. We listed the best commercial IDS/IPS tools and open source alternatives based on their categories, detection types, and pricing. These vendors provide a security package with enterprise-grade automation, ready-made dashboards, and out-of-the-box integration, along with an…
Top 6 Open-Source Log Analysis Tools: Wazuh, Graylog & More
As a CISO in a highly regulated industry with ~2 decades of cybersecurity expertise, I have worked with multiple SIEM-like log analysis platforms. From those, I picked the top 6 open-source log analysis tools. In evaluating these tools, I focused on key factors such as log collection flexibility, real-time event detection, scalability, and support for…
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 &…
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