diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 0ac1c33e..f617c39d 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@
         </contributor>
         <contributor>
             <name>Rick Evans</name>
-        <contributor>
+        </contributor>
     </contributors>
     <organization>
         <name>The Spring Web Services Framework</name>