Rio Silver Inc. announced that Mr. Christopher Hopton, CGA has agreed to join the Company as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary. Hopton brings 25 years of financial expertise with a diverse background of financial planning, accounting policy and process improvement while also serving as CFO for Sirona Biochem and facilitating its recent meteoric valuation surge, the results of many years of dedicated determination by its principals in Canada's junior capital markets. The departing CFO, Mr. Dan Hamilton, for his years of dedicated service, particularly through the more recent junior mining capital markets drought.