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
Top 10 SaaS Backup Solutions
Many businesses operate under the misconception that their SaaS providers (like Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace) fully protect their data from all threats. While these platforms offer some level of data redundancy, they do not protect against accidental deletion, ransomware, or insider threats. SaaS backup solutions address these issues. We analyzed the top 10 SaaS…
Top 3 Synthetic Document Generators Benchmarked
Synthetic document generators create annotated, realistic document images that help train and evaluate machine learning models without relying on large, manually labeled datasets. We benchmark 3 synthetic document generators, Genalog, DocCreator, and Tonic Textual, by creating more than 2,500 synthetic documents, comparing their effectiveness in realistic layouts, accurate numerical data, and training datasets for document…
AI Agent Traps: 20 Real-Life Incidents
AI agent adoption has outpaced AI agent security: 82% of enterprises now deploy agents, but 44% have policies to secure them, and one in five organizations has already experienced an agent-related breach. We analyzed 20 real-world security incidents and found that behavioral control and systemic traps (not prompt injection) now drive the majority of critical…
Top 10+ DSPM Vendors to Enhance Data Security
As a technology and information security leader, I selected the top 10 DSPM solutions to discover, classify, and protect sensitive data across IaaS, SaaS, and DBaaS environments. Explore the rationale behind each choice through the links below: Vendors with: Vendors with: Vendors indicate that pricing varies based on the number of data sources, apps, and…
Top 8 Open Source RBAC Tools
Based on GitHub activity, update frequency, and deployment model, I listed the top 8 open-source RBAC tools that help organizations restrict system access by granting users permissions and privileges. This list covers 8 open-source RBAC tools across three categories: general-purpose authorization libraries and identity platforms with RBAC support, and Kubernetes-specific permission tools. Tool selection &…
Analysis of Top 3 Open Source Firewall Management Tools
Substantial costs of data breaches, which average over $4 million globally. To safeguard their sensitive data and firewall security, businesses rely on firewall security management services. If you are *Based on data from B2B review platforms **Compatibility might be possible via some layer, such as virtualization. You may explore details regarding in the following sections.…
AI-Based Stock Trading: Which Gen AI Tool Is Better
LLM tools have been used in AI-based stock trading since their emergence. 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 7+ Open Source Firewall Options: Features & Types
Network security statistics reveal that the average cost of a data breach is approximately $4 million and is increasing. Organizations are saving ~$2 million annually by relying on network security solutions such as next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), AI network security, and network security automation technologies compared to those that rely solely on traditional security measures. Open…
Google Workspace Backup: NinjaOne vs Acronis vs IONOS
We tested five major SaaS backup solutions, Acronis, NinjaOne, IONOS, ManageEngine, and CloudAlly, to evaluate their performance, features, and usability for Google Workspace email backups. Our benchmark measured backup speeds, restore times, setup ease, and practical functionality across 21 active mailboxes containing over 90,000 emails. Note: Figures in seconds. To ensure a fair comparison, the…
AI Agent Performance: Success Rates & ROI
Recent research reveals that AI performance follows predictable exponential decay patterns, enabling businesses to forecast capabilities and differentiate between costly failures and successful ROI-generating implementations. I oversaw 12 AIMultiple benchmarks, including nearly 70 AI agents across more than 1,000 tasks. See what each benchmark measures and where limits remain: Computer use agents interact with a…
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