Cancer support center appoints Needham resident to board of trustees Community Content The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Cancer Support Center recently announced the appointment of Mark Salamone, of Needham, to its board of trustees. Salamone will serve on the finance committee. He is the principal/CFO of Alpha Pension Group Inc., a retirement plan consulting firm that specializes in educating companies and nonprofits on their retirement plan options. Salamone has a passion for working with plan fiduciaries using strategic data analytics to measure the success of the retirement plan and for developing action plans towards improving plan health and employee retirement outcomes. He loves to assist plan sponsors in developing initiatives designed to recruit, reward and retain talent and is always excited to play a role in an organization’s growth strategy.