McKay Securities PLC announced that Richard Grainger has been appointed to the board as an independent non-executive director and as a member of the company's audit, remuneration and nomination committees.  He will become chairman of the group's audit committee with effect from July 1, 2014.  Andrew Gulliford will be retiring from the board later in the year, at which time Viscount Lifford will take over as senior independent director and chairman of the remuneration committee. Richard Grainger was a non-executive director of safestore plc from 2007 to 2013, and chairman from 2008.