Mike Bivona is a world traveler, book collector, author, historian, philanthropist, tango aficionado, and recipient of Long Island University's annual Distinguished Alumni Award 2007. He is the author of Dancing Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona; Retired? What's Next?; Business Infrastructure in a Computer Environment, and Was That Me?: Turning Points in my Life. He lives with his wife, Barbara, in New York and Florida.