The Birth: When a pregnant lady delivered her baby boy in the back of a truck, neither she nor her husband ever knew that they were so close to the birth matrix of Kal-El, a.k.a. Clark Kent (See Superman) and no-one would ever realize how such proximity to the alien vessel would change their lives. The baby boy was exposed to some of the Krytonite from the matrix and the radiation altered his genes and he grew up to become Conduit.
Conduit may have been born at the same time as Clark, but none of the early Superman books mention his name; rather he popped up in a comic with a deceiving serial number : Action Comics #0

The Alter Ego: Conduit was born as Kenny Braverman, in the back of his father's truck about the same time that Clark was "born". He would have been a normal person had it not been for his father's praises for the boy next door: Clark Kent. Though Kenny grew up with Clark and became one of his good buddies, he slowly grew to hate Clark since his own father always kept putting him down while at the same time; sang praises for Clark.
He was a victim of his environment and became what he was not because of who he was but because of what he had gone through. Kenny had gone his entire life feeling like a loser because his father told him so. He always looked for his father's approval but never found it. The psychological abuse was more than he could take and he ultimately went crakers.
He later got a job in the C.I.A and went out of Clark's life for good. It was the C.I.A that made him into the super agent; Conduit, of course that was possible because of his special powers he got from the Kryptonite radiation.
However the hatred remained it slowly devoured his humanity.

The Legend: When Brverman a.k.a Conduit left the C.I.A, he set up an organization rivalling the C.I.A and called it Pipeline. Conduit's speciality is that he radiates Kryptonite and he uses cables which are attached to his arm as his primary Kryptonite weapon.
After setting up his organization, he went after the one person who had caused him so much grief all theses years : Clark Kent! Of course, Superman got in the way and foiled his plans resulting in Condiut's imprisonment at S.T.A.R Labs. They even called in a special jailor by the name of Draper to make an personalized escape-proof prison for the crook.
Later on when Conduit did escape and went after Clark, he learned his true identity as Superman and started a full scale attack on Clark's family and friends, sparing no-one. However, his hatred got the better of him and he succumbed to his own Kryptonite burnout.

Action Comics #0