ApplyBoard, Global. Dean Pike has been appointed as partner relations manager for the UK and Ireland at ApplyBoard. With over 10 years of experience within international student recruitment and admissions, Dean Pike was recently appointed as one of the Partner Relations Managers for the United Kingdom. Dean will work to expand and maintain ApplyBoard‘s partner institutions portfolio and evaluate new strategic markets. Prior to his new role, Dean worked at the University of Nottingham as an International Relations Manager looking after East-Asia, South-East Asia and CIS. During this time, Dean co-created a Hong Kong brand known as UniFest, which promotes UK Universities across Hong Kong based international schools. Dean also spent five years working at Liverpool John Moores as an International Admissions Officer, after spending a short time working for the UKVI.