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 Circular Economy Metrics to Assess Businesses
The concept of circular economy (CE) is quickly making its way into business literature since we are struggling with major environmental issues. Besides its environmental value, CE expects to bring 4.5 trillion dollars until 2030 due to effective allocation of resources.
Comparison of Top 10+ Firewall Audit Software in 2026
Firewall audit software helps validate compliance and manage firewall configurations. Explore a comparison of leading firewall audit tools based on two approaches: Top 11 firewall audit software Feature benchmark *Average percentage of features offered by each tool across four categories: notifications, reports and analytics, policy management, and user-based authorization.
Top 3 Open Source Firewall Audit Tools Compared in 2026
Open-source firewall audit tools enable IT teams to assess whether their firewalls are properly configured without incurring high costs. However, mid-market and enterprise companies may explore closed-source firewall audit software for more comprehensive solutions.
Sentiment Analysis Stock Market: Sources and Challenges
Making accurate predictions regarding stock prices is challenging as the stock prices move depending on factors like interest rates, corporate governance, investors’ risk aversion, market trends, and firm investments. However, understanding the market psychology with sentiment analysis stock market might give a clue about future stock price movements.
Top 12+ Answer Engine Optimization Tools in 2026
Instead of showing a list of links, search engine tools like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity now provide direct answers. This shift makes it harder for websites to stand out using only traditional SEO methods. That’s where answer engine optimization tools come in.
Top AI Document Generator Tools in 2026
AI document generators promise to create documents, presentations, and even websites from just a short prompt.
Top 10 AI Word Writing Tools: Reviewed & Tested in 2026
Generative AI tools are now widely used to address everyday business challenges. 68% of managers recommend generative AI tools to support their teams in the US, and 86% report that these tools were effective in solving real work problems.
Benchmark-Based Comparison of WAF Solutions in 2026
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.
Agentic AI Finance Benchmark: FinRobot vs FinRL vs FinGPT
79% of executives report that their companies have started adopting AI agents, yet only 34% are currently using them in accounting and finance. We conduct a benchmark on 3 agentic AI finance tools tailored for financial workflows.
Top 20+ Enterprise AI Assistants by Category & Use Case
Enterprise AI assistants and enterprise AI agents are smart software programs that help employees do their jobs more efficiently using artificial intelligence, especially generative AI and natural language processing (NLP). However, finding the one that fits your business can be tricky.
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