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 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.1 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:…
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.18 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…
Top 7+ Open Source Firewall Options: Features & Types
Network security statistics reveal that Open source firewalls provide a cost effective solution to network security. Explore the features, types, and challenges of top open source firewalls as well as a comparison of open source firewalls and commercial firewalls: * Based on data from B2B review platforms ** Based on data from LinkedIn Inclusion criteria:…
7 Network Security Use Cases
Network security protects the systems, traffic, and accounts that run an organization. We examine seven network security use cases each a real-world example, ranging from detecting insider threats to managing privileged access. Malicious insiders account for a large share of reported security incidents,36 making it hard to distinguish normal activity from harmful activity, since these…
Agentic AI for Cybersecurity: 10 Use Cases & Examples
Agentic AI refers to AI systems that combine models like large language models (LLMs) with automated workflows, tool integration, and decision support. These systems assist security teams in SecOps and AppSec by analyzing alerts, automating routine tasks, and supporting investigative work. Explore structured, real-world use cases of agentic AI in cybersecurity, as well as what…
Top 15 Accounting AI Agents
Tools like Dext, AutoEntry, and Hubdoc have automated data extraction and transaction posting. But these systems are fundamentally still rule-based, often requiring accountants to jump between spreadsheets. Thus, after reviewing the documentation and watching demos, we picked the top 15 AI-based accounting agents: The demos below show how accounting agents handle different tasks. In this…
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,62 and one in five organizations has already experienced an agent-related breach.63 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 Emotion AI Tools Tested
We tested 12 vision-capable large language models on 70 labeled face photographs, five times each, to assess how accurately they identify the emotion on a human face. The highest score is 67%, no two models in the test are statistically distinguishable, and the cohort reads anger at 22%. In addition, we explore ten leading emotion…
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