Brian Cruver

Brian Cruver
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Author Businessman
Known for	Anatomy of Greed The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron.

Brian Cruver is an American author and a former trading-floor Enron employee known for publishing the 2002 novel Anatomy of Greed. ^[1] The book chronicles a first-hand account of the Enron scandal and was the first non-fiction work published about the company's internal fraud and bankruptcy. In 2003, CBS adapted the book into a television movie, The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron. ^[2] He is also the co-founder of Xenex Disinfection Services and the founder of AlertMedia.

Career Overview

After completing his MBA, Cruver landed a job at Shell in Houston before moving to Enron in 2001. ^[3] He spent 9 months on the trading floor before witnessing the company's massive collapse and scandal. Cruver and thousands of other employees lost their jobs when Enron filed for bankruptcy. He used his experience to write his novel Anatomy of Greed, which chronicles the collapse from a first-person perspective. ^[4] The book went on to be a best-seller and in 2003 was adapted as a TV movie for CBS, The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron. ^[5]

In 2009, Cruver co-founded a company called Xenex Disinfection Services, which makes a germ-killing robotic device used by over 500 hospitals globally to reduce hospital-acquired infections. ^[6] The device uses ultraviolet radiation from a special xenon-filled lightbulb to kill drug-resistant bacteria. In 2013, Cruver founded AlertMedia, an emergency mass notification company. ^[7]

Published Books

• Anatomy of Greed

References

1. "No eBook available Amazon.com Barnes&Noble.com Books-A-Million IndieBound Find in a library All sellers » Get Textbooks on Google Play Rent and save from the world's largest eBookstore. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. Go to Google Play Now » Enron: Anatomy of Greed : the Unshredded Truth from an Enron Insider". Google Books.
2. Hart, Hugh. "Writing Enron's last chapter / Ex-employee's 'Anatomy of Greed' book made into TV movie". Sfgate.
3. "Enron: From Crime Time To Prime Time". CBS News.
4. McDaniel, Mike. "'Crooked E' scores direct hit in local ratings battle". Chron. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
5. Collins, Terry. "Tech leaders have all the skills for politics. Still, most don't want to run". USA Today.
6. Blake, Rich. "In Coronavirus Fight, Robots Report For Disinfection Duty". Forbes.
7. Foster, Tom. "In the Disaster Biz, Transparency and Collaboration Are the Only Way to Survive Until the Dust Settles". Inc.