This document outlines Chancellor Nancy Zimpher's leadership in advancing online education across the SUNY system from 1994 to the present. It discusses key initiatives such as: 1) Establishing the SUNY Learning Network in 1994 which became the second largest asynchronous learning network in the country serving over 85,000 online students by 2011. 2) Launching a system-wide online faculty development program in 1996 and the Open SUNY initiative in 2013. 3) Forming expert teams and committees beginning in 2010 to support online course design, multimedia, libraries, communities of practice and competency development as part of the Open SUNY vision.