diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index fad6cb025a19..886365433105 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -26090,7 +26090,6 @@ S:	Maintained
 F:	drivers/vfio/platform/
 
 VFIO QAT PCI DRIVER
-M:	Xin Zeng <xin.zeng@intel.com>
 M:	Giovanni Cabiddu <giovanni.cabiddu@intel.com>
 L:	kvm@vger.kernel.org
 L:	qat-linux@intel.com