Avino Silver & Gold Mines Ltd. announced the appointment of Mr. Ross Glanville to the Board of Directors. Mr. Glanville has almost forty-five years of mining and exploration/development experience in many countries, and has been involved in the exploration, financing, development, and operation of a number of mines. He worked at various mine sites with a major mining company, and subsequently became Vice President of Wright Engineers Limited and then President of Giant Bay Resources Ltd. Mr. Glanville has been a director and founder of a number of exploration, development, and mining companies, and is currently a director of two mining companies and two exploration companies.

The company also reported that Mr. Andrew Kaplan is stepping off the board and will take on a more active day to day role as the company's capital market strategist. Mr. Kaplan's new role will focus on enhancing company's profile in the financial markets. Mr. Kaplan will be providing long term capital market strategy and will provide support for budgets, M&A, new capital initiatives and special projects.