Complex sentence: Soames is chairman of the private security contractor Aegis Defence Services and chairman of Framlington Second Dual Trust plc. Aegis had a series of contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to provide guards to protect US military bases in Iraq from 2004 onwards.
Split into simpler sentences: Soames is chairman of the private security contractor Aegis Defence Services. The company had a series of contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars to provide guards to protect US military bases in Iraq from 2004 onwards.