# Shawn Sims

> Shawn Sims is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of NUWAVE Communications, a global business communications provider. Based in Henderson, Nevada, he has a career spanning telecom business development, network deployment, and cloud calling. NUWAVE’s iPILOT platform supports communications management across Microsoft Teams, Zoom Phone, and Webex Calling.

- **Role:** Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at NUWAVE Communications
- **Organizations:** NUWAVE Communications, XYN Communications, NuWave Communications (Canada) Limited
- **Education:** Eastern Oregon University
- **Known for:** Co-founded NUWAVE Communications and leads it as CEO., His professional biography in a 2010 carrier application credits him with facilitating more than 55 telecom mergers and acquisitions., The same biography credits Sims and his staff with deploying fiber in Jakarta and voice/data networks for two incumbent operators in the Philippines.

## Career timeline

- **1990-1994** — Attended Eastern Oregon University, as listed on his LinkedIn profile.
- **1998** — Co-founded NUWAVE; the company and his 2019 conference remarks date its origins to 1998.
- **2010** — Identified as President of XYN Communications in a telecommunications carrier application.
- **2016** — As NUWAVE CEO, announced the company’s hosted Skype for Business communications rollout.
- **2019** — Spoke at Ribbon Perspectives about NUWAVE’s focus on smaller telecom markets.
- **2020** — Addressed as President and CEO of NuWave Communications (Canada) Limited in a February CRTC letter.

## Achievements

- Co-founded NUWAVE Communications and leads it as CEO.
- His professional biography in a 2010 carrier application credits him with facilitating more than 55 telecom mergers and acquisitions.
- The same biography credits Sims and his staff with deploying fiber in Jakarta and voice/data networks for two incumbent operators in the Philippines.
- NUWAVE received a Rising Star award at the 2023 Zoom Partner Awards; this was a company recognition.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — NUWAVE published an October 14 article on its AI governance and ISO 42001 certification; this is a company development rather than a personal announcement.
- **2026-07** — NUWAVE reaffirmed continued support for legacy voice and cloud environments in a July 29 article.
- **2025-01** — NUWAVE promoted Teleport, an iPILOT feature for automating legacy PBX migrations, in a January 24 announcement.

## Links

- Website: https://nuwave.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shawnsims888
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/shawnsims

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Last updated: 2026-10-27