ADVISORSHARES TRUST

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned Trustee, Chief Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and President of AdvisorShares Trust (the “Trust”), a statutory trust organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby constitutes and appoints Dan Ahrens his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign for him and in his name, place and stead, and in the capacity indicated below, to sign any and all Registration Statements and all amendments thereto relating to the offering of the Trust’s shares under the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and/or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand and seal as of the date set forth below.

	/s/Noah Hamman
Name:	Noah Hamman
Title:	Trustee, Chief Executive Officer, Principal Financial Officer and President
Date:	June 14, 2013

ADVISORSHARES TRUST

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned Trustee of AdvisorShares Trust (the “Trust”), a statutory trust organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby constitutes and appoints Noah Hamman and Dan Ahrens, and each of them singly, her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign for her and in her name, place and stead, and in the capacity indicated below, to sign any and all Registration Statements and all amendments thereto relating to the offering of the Trust’s shares under the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and/or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set her hand and seal as of the date set forth below.

	/s/Elizabeth Piper/Bach
Name:	Elizabeth Piper/Bach
Title:	Trustee
Date:	May 28, 2013

ADVISORSHARES TRUST

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned Trustee of AdvisorShares Trust (the “Trust”), a statutory trust organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby constitutes and appoints Noah Hamman and Dan Ahrens, and each of them singly, his true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign for him and in his name, place and stead, and in the capacity indicated below, to sign any and all Registration Statements and all amendments thereto relating to the offering of the Trust’s shares under the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and/or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand and seal as of the date set forth below.

	/s/William G. McVay
Name:	William G. McVay
Title:	Trustee
Date:	May 30, 2013

ADVISORSHARES TRUST

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer and Treasurer of AdvisorShares Trust (the “Trust”), a statutory trust organized under the laws of the State of Delaware, hereby constitutes and appoints Noah Hamman his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to sign for him and in his name, place and stead, and in the capacity indicated below, to sign any and all Registration Statements and all amendments thereto relating to the offering of the Trust’s shares under the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended and/or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or their substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set his hand and seal as of the date set forth below.

	/s/Dan Ahrens
Name:	Dan Ahrens
Title:	Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer and Treasurer
Date:	June 13, 2013