**Exhibit 99.1**

**Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to the Emergency Stimulus Act of 2008**

I, Robert Rothman, certify, based on my knowledge, that: 

(i) Thecompensation committee of Florida Bank Group, Inc. (the “Company”) has discussed, reviewed, and evaluated with senior risk officers at least every six months during the period beginning on the later of September 14, 2009, or ninetydays after the closing date of the agreement between the Company and Treasury and ending with the last day of the Company’s fiscal year containing that date (the applicable period), the senior executive officer (SEO) compensation plans and theemployee compensation plans and the risks these plans pose to the Company. 

(ii) The compensation committee of theCompany has identified and limited during the applicable period any features of the SEO compensation plans that could lead SEOs to take unnecessary and excessive risks that could threaten the value of the Company, and during that same applicableperiod has identified any features of the employee compensation plans that pose risks to the Company and has limited those features to ensure that the Company is not unnecessarily exposed to risks; 

(iii) The compensation committee has reviewed, at least every six months during the applicable period, the terms of each employeecompensation plan and identified any features of the plan that could encourage the manipulation of reported earnings of the Company to enhance the compensation of an employee, and has limited any such features; 

(iv) The compensation committee of the Company will certify to the reviews of the SEO compensation plans and employee compensationplans required under (i) and (iii) above; 

(v) The compensation committee of the Company will provide anarrative description of how it limited during any part of the most recently completed fiscal year that included a TARP period the features in 

(A) SEO compensation plans that could lead SEOs to take unnecessary and excessive risks that could threaten the value of the Company; 

(B) Employee compensation plans that unnecessarily expose the Company to risks; and 

(C) Employee compensation plans that could encourage the manipulation of reported earnings of the Company to enhance thecompensation of an employee; 

(vi) The Company has required that bonus payments, as defined in the regulations andguidance established under section 111 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 as amended by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“EESA”) (bonus payments), of the SEOs and twenty next most highly compensatedemployees be subject to a recovery or “clawback” provision during any part of the most recently completed fiscal year that was a TARP period if the bonus payments were based on materially inaccurate financial statements or any othermaterially inaccurate performance metric criteria; 

(vii) The Company has prohibited any golden parachute payment, asdefined in the regulations and guidance established under section 111 of EESA, to a SEO or any of the next five most highly compensated employees during the period beginning on the later of the closing date of the agreement between the Company andTreasury or June 15, 2009 and ending with the last day of the Company’s fiscal year containing that date; 

(viii) The Company has limited bonus payments to its applicable employees in accordance with section 111 of EESA and the regulations and guidance established thereunder during the period beginning on the later of the closing date ofthe agreement between the Company and Treasury or June 15, 2009 and ending with the last day of the Company’s fiscal year containing that date; 

(ix) The board of directors of the Company has established an excessive or luxury expenditures policy, as defined in the regulations and guidance established under section 111 of EESA, by the laterof September 14, 2009, or ninety days after the closing date of the agreement between the Company and Treasury; this policy has

been provided to Treasury and its primary regulatory agency; the Company and its employees have complied with this policy during the applicable period; and any expenses that, pursuant to thispolicy, required approval of the board of directors, a committee of the board of directors, an SEO, or an executive officer with a similar level of responsibility were properly approved; 

(x) The Company will permit a non-binding shareholder resolution in compliance with any applicable federal securities rules andregulations on the disclosures provided under the federal securities laws related to SEO compensation paid or accrued during the period beginning on the later of the closing date of the agreement between the Company and Treasury or June 15,2009 and ending with the last day of the Company’s fiscal year containing that date; 

(xi) The Company will disclosethe amount, nature, and justification for the offering during the period beginning on the later of the closing date of the agreement between the Company and Treasury or June 15, 2009 and ending with the last day of the Company’s fiscalyear containing that date of any perquisites, as defined in the regulations and guidance established under section 111 of EESA, whose total value exceeds $25,000 for any employee who is subject to the bonus payment limitations identified inparagraph (viii); 

(xii) The Company will disclose whether the Company, the board of directors of the Company, or thecompensation committee of the Company has engaged during the period beginning on the later of the closing date of the agreement between the Company and Treasury or June 15, 2009 and ending with the last day of the Company’s fiscal yearcontaining that date, a compensation consultant; and the services the compensation consultant or any affiliate of the compensation consultant provided during this period; 

(xiii) The Company has prohibited the payment of any gross-ups, as defined in the regulations and guidance established under section 111 of EESA, to the SEOs and the next twenty most highlycompensated employees during the period beginning on the later of the closing date of the agreement between the Company and Treasury or June 15, 2009 and ending with the last day of the Company’s fiscal year containing that date;

(xiv) The Company has substantially complied with all other requirements related to employee compensation that areprovided in the agreement between the Company and Treasury, including any amendments; 

(xv) The Company has submitted toTreasury a complete and accurate list of the SEOs and the twenty next most highly compensated employees for the current fiscal year and the most recently completed fiscal year, with the non-SEOs ranked in descending order of level of annualcompensation, and with the name, title, and employer of each SEO and most highly compensated employee identified; and 

(xvi) I understand that a knowing and willful false or fraudulent statement made in connection with this certification may be punished by fine, imprisonment, or both. (See, for example, 18 USC 1001). 

Date: March 31, 2010 

 

/s/ ROBERT ROTHMAN

Robert Rothman

Chief ExecutiveOfficer