BluePoint Energy, Inc. Announces Gordon V. Smith to Join Board of Directors.

EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. -- Chapeau, Inc. (OTCBB: CPEU) dba BluePoint Energy, Inc. announced today that Gordon V. Smith has accepted the nomination to serve on the Company's Board of Directors. The Company provided the following biographical summary:

Gordon V. Smith, founder of the regional real estate development firm of Miller and Smith Companies, currently serves as its Chairman of the Board. Since 1964, he has successfully guided the company through tumultuous market changes and halting recessions by applying an analytical market approach and conservative accounting procedures to the development industry.

In 1996, Gordon was asked to serve as a director of Bank Plus, a $4 billion NASDAQ listed financial services company with headquarters in Glendale, California. A year later he was elected Chairman of the Board and actively serves in that capacity. He is also a director of Crown NorthCorp, a financial service company with operations in Europe and the United States.

In addition, he travels frequently to the Philippines where he serves as a director of the Opportunity Microfinance Bank, devoted to making loans and taking deposits from the poor in the Philippines.

Gordon graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1954, served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force, and continued his education by earning a MBA from Harvard Business School in 1959. Throughout his career, he has retained an interest in academia and was an adjunct professor of Residential Construction and Development at American University from 1974 to 1987. Gordon served as a delegate to China in 1983 and 1986, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He also served as a member of the Virginia Strategic Council at the request of Lt. Governor Don Beyer.

In 1989, Gordon received Employer of the Year Award from the Washington, D.C. Downtown J.C.'s and was named Entrepreneur of the Year in the category of Washington Real Estate by Inc. Magazine and Ernst & Young. Gordon is an active member of the United Methodist Church, a past member of the Board of Trustees of Ohio Wesleyan University, a current member of the Ohio Wesleyan University Endowments Committee and with his wife Helen, served as co-chairman of the Major Gifts campaign for the University's $50 million fund drive. He is past chairman of the Wesley Theological Foundation.

BluePoint CEO, Guy A. Archbold, commented, "We are exceptionally pleased to welcome Gordon to the Board of Directors of BluePoint Energy Inc. Gordon's vast professional success, particularly in real estate development domestically and oversight in overseas markets, shall be tremendously beneficial to our growth strategy here and abroad. We are very fortunate to not only have Gordon as a significant private investor in our Company but also now as a member of our Board."

About Chapeau, Inc. dba BluePoint Energy, Inc.

Chapeau, Inc. dba BluePoint Energy, Inc. designs, assembles and sells packaged Combined Heat and Power generation systems under the trademark Lean-One(R) to utilities, energy service companies and commercial end users in need of reliable, efficient, clean and cost-effective energy solutions. The Company trades publicly on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol CPEU. For more information, call 916-941-6319 or visit the Company's website at www.bluepointenergy.com.

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