Andrew B. Hargadon, Ph.D. Joins BluePoint Energy's Board of Advisors.

Director of UC Davis Energy Efficiency Center to Serve as Chief Alternative Energy Advisor

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. -- Chapeau, Inc. d/b/a BluePoint Energy (OTC BB: CPEU) announced today that Andrew B. Hargadon, Ph.D., has accepted an appointment to BluePoint's Board of Advisors as the Company's Chief Alternative Energy Advisor to the CEO. An Associate Professor of Technology Management at the Graduate School of Management at University of California, Davis, Professor Hargadon is an expert in energy efficiency, alternative energy technologies, technology management, management of innovation, entrepreneurship and new product development and author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate (Harvard Business School Press 2003). Professor Hargadon is founding Director of both the Center for Entrepreneurship and the Energy Efficiency Center at University of California, Davis.

Professor Hargadon's research focuses on the effective management of innovation and the strategic role of design in managing technology transitions, particularly in the development and commercialization of sustainable technologies. He has written extensively on knowledge and technology brokering and the role of learning and knowledge management in innovation and has published numerous articles and chapters in leading scholarly and applied publications, including Harvard Business Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, California Management Review and Research in Organizational Behavior. Professor Hargadon also serves on the editorial board of Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Organization Studies, and the Academy of Management Review. His research has been used to develop or guide new innovation programs in organizations as diverse as the Canadian Health Services, Silicon Valley start-ups, Hewlett-Packard and the US Navy. He also teaches corporate executive programs and serves on the advisory boards of several start-up companies.

Professor Hargadon 44, received his Ph.D. from the Management Science and Engineering Department in Stanford University's School of Engineering, where he was named Boeing Fellow and Sloan Foundation Future Professor of Manufacturing. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Stanford University's Product Design Program in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Prior to his academic appointment, Professor Hargadon served as a design engineer at IDEO Product Development and Apple Computer and taught in the Product Design program at Stanford University.

Professor Hargadon commented for this release, "I'm excited to be working with BluePoint Energy. With the company's new Demand Response Asset Aggregation Program (D-RAAP(TM)) and ultra-clean EnviroGen[TM] Energy Module businesses, I believe BluePoint has a truly unique set of new and strong technologies and a management team that executes. I think the timing is right for this combination of clean energy solutions to change the game."

Guy A. Archbold, Chief Executive Officer of BluePoint Energy, stated, "BluePoint Energy is exceptionally pleased and honored to welcome Professor Hargadon as the Company's Chief Alternative Energy Advisor to the CEO. We believe that his presence on our Board of Advisors reflects a strong vote of confidence in the underlying value of our future business and plan, particularly based upon Andy's work and experience as Director of the highly esteemed and well known Energy Efficiency Center at the University of California, Davis. We look forward with enthusiasm to working together with Professor Hargadon in the development and fulfillment of the BluePoint's corporate mission to be a leading, technology-based, clean energy management company, providing cost effective and environmentally sustainable energy solutions on both national and international levels."

About Chapeau, Inc. d/b/a BluePoint Energy

Chapeau is an energy management company that provides state-of-the-art, technology-based, environmentally responsible, ultra clean, demand response (DR) and combined heat and power (CHP) solutions to commercial and industrial energy users across the majority of public and private industry sectors, including hospitality, retail, healthcare, manufacturing and government. To-date, the Company's efforts have focused principally on incorporating innovative and proprietary engineering solutions into its D-RAAP[TM] (Demand Response Asset Aggregation Program) and EnviroGen[TM] Energy Modules, both solutions utilizing Chapeau's proprietary, robust, multi-layered, Internet and microprocessor-based GenView[TM] control systems.

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