Company: Shire
Team size: 19
What's new: As business grows and globalization becomes key, Shire has ramped up its communications operations. 

Within the last 18 months, Shire, a global biopharmaceutical company, has nearly doubled the size of its corporate communications team.

Jessica Mann, SVP of global corporate communications, explains that the increases resulted from the company recently folding government relations into corporate communications, which she heads up.

"The rationale is ...